"Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral."

-- R. W. Apple

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“The best way to understand any system is to understand the problem it was invented to solve.”
“There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.”

Source : Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.
“A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.”
“Scobe's Eighth Law: The moron will enter the single deck game when the count is sky high and the dealer is deciding whether or not to shuffle. The morons's entrance will convince the dealer that it's time to shuffle. You will now face a new deck with your biggest bet out and the pit boss watching closely.”
“For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.”
“Our element is unending immaturity.”

Source : Witold Gombrowicz (2012). “Ferdydurke”, p.85, Yale University Press
“I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.”

Source : "Cronenberg on Cronenberg". Book by David Cronenberg, 1997.
“We are all powerless as children, and money looms so powerfully... we don't grow up to claim our financial power until we look money directly in the eye, face our fears, and claim that power back.”

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