"Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution."

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“I think how I've gotten better, hopefully, at taking what I've got and being able to mish-mash something together, and as long as it feels real to me in the moment, then it feels like a success.”

Source : "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.
“At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him.”
“We're principled in the direction we're heading, but we're not going to be stubborn,”
“The road to national rebirth is a hard one, but there is no other.”
“At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it.”
“In the world there are believers and then there are non-believers. For all of you non-believers out there, I have something to say to you...never underestimate the heart of a champion.”
“I have read somewhere or other,-in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,-that history is philosophy teaching by examples.”

Source : "Letters on the study and use of history" by Henry St. John Bolingbroke, (letter 2), 1752.
“You can't have a pristine house with ten dogs, and I'd rather have the ten dogs.”

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