"Simply as a writer of books I'm thrilled and proud that Seattle should have raised, on a public vote, sufficient money to build a central library, and moreover to rebuild every other library in the city: 28 of them."

-- Jonathan Raban

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“By going along with feelings, you unify your emotional, mental and bodily states. When you try to fight or deny them, you divorce yourself from the reality of your being.”
“Anyway that other thing we almost did in Paris-that's probably off the table for a while.Unless you want that whole baby-I'm-on-fire-when-we kiss thing to become freakishly literal”
“There are men who do exist who have no desire for women. That doesn't necessarily mean they have an interest in men, but scholars often interpret it to mean those men who don't have sexual knowledge.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“You'll find as you go through life that great depth and smoldering sensuality don't always win.”
“One very important element for me to make a movie is, it has to be unique and different from any other.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 6, 2005.
“My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.”
“You push a button and it goes all over the world and on Sunday people are saying, 'Oh, I binge watched all 10 of them. Where's more?' and you go oh, the world has changed. It's not my dad walking to the television set and turning a knob to Ed Sullivan.”
“If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.”

Source : Ned Rorem (2013). “Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary”, p.337, Open Road Media

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