"Art is only great if it's uncodifiable. If art isn't scaring you, if it's not making you upset, then I don't think it's actually doing anything."

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Dale Peck

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“I don't know what they call Hollywood anymore. The whole meaning of the town has changed.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies. They were all phenomenal. Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn't mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it's just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.”
“I am a compulsive and concise shopper.”
“Being general manager is like being the de facto owner. It's like wearing the crown of 'Restaurant Man' without being 'Restaurant Man.' You're trying to run the business, but you're running the ranch without riding the big horse.”
“The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and stoop lower than most people are willing to. It chips away a person's dreams to the point that the hopelessness shows through, and the dreamer accepts that hard work and borrowed houses are all this life will ever be.”

Source : Rick Bragg (2010). “All Over but the Shoutin'”, p.25, Vintage
“If that guy (Mickey Mantle) were healthy, he'd hit 80 home runs.”
“I went to this very disorganized Jewish summer camp in Maine called Camp Modin.”
“Wind and solar power, energy efficient buildings, cars that go farther on a tank of gas, and other solutions can fight climate change. I know America can get on a more sustainable path - we just have to raise our voices and demand it.”

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