"America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture."

-- Jean-Jacques Annaud

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“I don't want to be on the bandwagon of dogging any president or anybody in positions where they have all these different constituencies.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.”
“My advice to aspiring writers of fantasy trilogies or series is that each book needs two main plots. There's the 'big story', the over-arching grand plot of the entire series, and there is the complete-in-itself, one-book plot.”
“Here we find further argument for Gotaggaâ€™s supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?”

Source : R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Thousandfold Thought: The Prince of Nothing, Book Three (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.60, The Overlook Press
“I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad.”
“Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live, while only a fraction of that amount is appropriated to service the densely populated slums.”
“The point about L-O-V-E is that we hate the word. Because we vulgarize it. It should be taboo, forbidden from utterance for many years, till we've found a new and a better idea.”
“Women, in general, are not part of the corruption of the past, so they can give a new kind of leadership, a new image for mankind.”

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