"In memory Venice is always magic."

-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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“Well, the film's not only pricking the pomposity of the Church, it's pricking the pomposity, and sometimes you would think fraudulence, of the insurance companies. I had never read anything like this until I was doing the film, but Mark [Joffe, the director] and people showed me stuff where, like a flood, it mattered where the water came from. If you're flooded from above, you get the money; if you're flooded from below, you don't. What's that about?”
“When you feel this knowledge and this spark in yourself, you've gotta continue feeding it. The best thing is to spend time around other wise men, that keeps it burning. That keeps it in every degree sharp as steel, but make sure you absorb enough to find out how it sparks from yourself, how the self starts the self. Once you've got that you should be free. That's freedom, to me.”
“There are all these levels of pretension in LA. Every time you walk into a cafÃ© or a bar or a restaurant in LA everybody turns around to see if you're famous. Everybody can seem like a celebrity. You can meet somebody who looks like Joe Schmoe and he turns out to be the head of HBO or something. Or you meet a person who just won an Oscar and he looks like he just won an Oscar. And it's a sprawling city, there's so many different parts to it.”
“The aim of the Constitutional treaty was to be more readable; the aim of this treaty is to be unreadable...The Constitution aimed to be clear, whereas this treaty had to be unclear. It is a success.”

Source : "Dominc Lawson: Pessimism is Brown's enemy on Europe". www.independent.co.uk. October 16, 2007.
“I draw on my memories but blended with a lot of fantasy...”
“It was only until I started to be myself that the music started to flow & people started to listen so thank you.”

Source : "Sam Smith's Grammy Acceptance Speech For Best Pop Vocal Album Is One To Remember" by Joanna Adams, www.huffingtonpost.ca. February 8, 2015.
“I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.”
“I am now The Establishment. There's nothing I can do about it.”

Source : Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. February 22, 2012.

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