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Randall Jarrell

"An intelligent man said that the world felt Napoleon as a weight, and that when he died it would give a great oof of relief. This is just as true of Byron, or of such Byrons of their days as Kipling and Hemingway: after a generation or two the world is tired of being their pedestal, shakes them of with an oof, and then hoisting onto its back a new world-figure feels the penetrating satisfaction of having made a mistake all its own."

-- Randall Jarrell

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“Championships are mythical. The real champions are those who live through what they are taught in their homes and churches. The attitude that 'We've got to win' in sports must be changed. Teach your youngsters, who are the future hope of America, the importance of love, respect, dedication, determination, self-sacrifice, self-discipline and good attitude. That's the road up the ladder to the championships.”
“I want to stop. I want to stay on FÃ¥rÃ¶, and read the books I havenâ€™t read, find out things I havenâ€™t yet found out. I want to write things I havenâ€™t written. To listen to music, and talk to my neighbors. To live together with my wife a very calm, very secure, very lazy existence, for the rest of my life.”
“...Let's get to the image as quickly as possible, let's get to the message even faster, and let's find the scale to knock you over the head with the image and the message.”
“If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.”

Source : Jack Weatherford (2005). “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World”, p.125, Broadway Books
“When we step out into the unknown that is when God is made known.”
“I've actually done more [music for] films than television. I love the process of writing for a film. I love that you are creating this suite of music for a film, that's all tied together sonically and thematically and hopefully people associate with the film. They all are meaningful to me in different ways.”
“What I love about the theatre is that it's always metaphorical. It's like going back to being a kid again, and we're all pretending in a room. Sometimes, when the pretending really works, I find it much, much more moving than something on film.”
“Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.”

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