"It was beguiling to live in a country, Scotland, that didn't look enough like itself to be a location for its own movies... I remember consulting a film book and discovering that Arthur Freed decided to shoot Brigadoon in Hollywood because nowhere in Scotland looked Scottish enough."

-- Andrew O'Hagan

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“We lie to ourselves and try to escape that bitter reality by saying that the world is divided into good guys and bad guys, and that we're the good guys. We condemn people as evil to reassure us that we're not like them. If there's to be any hope of preventing these things from happening again, we have to look at the reality. That any act of evil in our history was committed by human beings like us. That, very often, we're all implicated in it.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“When you work too much, you are boring - that is possible. But to have a happy life, if you can do several things in the correct way, that is perfect.”
“During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective,...”

Source : "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.
“Being sexy is not about what's on show, it's all about suggestion, or insinuation. I'm interested in the way a garment hangs on a woman's body and the way it moves when she moves.”
“L.A. has a lot of tackiness to it, but at the same time, in that funny kind of fantasy pretentiousness, it's unpretentious because it's all here. It's what you make of it. It's a land of opportunity in a lot of ways. It's a great for an immigrant because it is what you make of it, and especially artists as workers in this culture, it offers so much, in terms of variety, of diversity. For years, the alleys of Los Angeles were my art store.”
“If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.”
“I believe women who are supported by men are prostitutes, that is that, and I am heartbroken to live through a time where Wall Street money means these women are not treated with due disdain.”
“The people who care about us the most are the ones who are most likely to hold us back.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz

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