"Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice."

-- Tom Wolfe

#Voice Quotes #Target Quotes #Parody Quotes

“Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most complex organism on the planet, into flicks, washes, and blobs of paint on a two-dimensional surface.”
“All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.”
“Cosmetic surgery is not "cosmetic," and human flesh is not "plastic." Even the names trivialize what it is. It's not like ironing wrinkles in fabric, or tuning up a car, or altering outmoded clothes, the current metaphors. Trivialization and infantilization pervade the surgeons' language when they speak to women: "a nip," a "tummy tuck."...Surgery changes one forever, the mind as well as the body. If we don't start to speak of it as serious, the millennium of the man-made woman will be upon us, and we will have had no choice.”
“I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.”
“Those who have loved are those that have found God”
“I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.”
“Early on everyone should do, every time they do a big film, they should do a little film. It really does keep you grounded.”
“. . . I know, by sad experience, with what difficulty a mind, weakened by long and uninterrupted suffering, admits hope, much less assurance.”

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