"Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different."

-- Sydney Pollack

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“We shouldn't be put out to pasture just because we've reached somebody's idea of retirement, which was certainly happening in Australia, and I think elsewhere as well.”

Source : "Fatherhood on the Fringe". Interview with Larry Getlen, www.aarp.org. November 18, 2010.
“Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?”

Source : Maxine Hong Kingston, Paul Skenazy, Tera Martin (1998). “Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes. After that I liked jazz music. Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way. I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened.”
“One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.”
“I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.”
“I was raised in the theater and, as it turned out, a TV show was like performing a new one-act play. So, it was really no different.”
“Waging war is not a primary physical need.”
“My notion of art is very maximalist and souped-up: I love spectacle, overload, magic materials, magic words, incantation and litany, incarnation and possession, spilling and wounds. Art as a sacred event.”

Source : "'Art as a sacred event'". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. April 7, 2015.

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