"The managerial class has forced on us a public language that makes no sense"

-- Don Watson

#Class Quotes #Language Quotes

“Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do.”

Source : Christopher Marlowe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Illustrated)”, p.1004, Delphi Classics
“But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work.”
“A fan once stopped me outside a theatre and gave me as a gift a signed photograph of Sir Laurence Olivier. It was strange, but nice, too.”
“That is truth. In that truth, there is real happiness. And there is nothing that could disturb that happiness.”
“For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an â€˜ism becomes so involved in reaction against other â€˜isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.”
“It's hard to convince people when you haven't done anything that the things you're working on are worthy of spending their time and money on: like, "Oh man, I write really great songs, I promise!"”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Among the songs I love best were those that I see as historically important, which help to change and develop my taste.”
“If you took any of my radio shows and you took the music out of them, they wouldn't be remotely the same thing. Music is really important.”

Source : Source: www.believermag.com

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