"I saw 'On The Town' about nine times. I discovered it. I loved it. I was in college."

-- Harold Prince

#College Quotes #Nine Quotes #Saws Quotes

“The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.”

Source : Derek Jarman (2010). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”
“I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character.”
“I had a drug problem. I'd go to parties, take a leak, and there was cocaine right there. I was 25 when it started, rich, famous, and retired.”
“There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.”
“Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard...Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought the brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electromagnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill...At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer.”
“Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head... it's only a matter of degree.”
“I was raised with Eddie Fisher as a father and Connie Stevens as a mother. It was sort of hard for me to pick anything else, because this was the life I knew.”
“A watered down gospel is no gospel at all”

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