"The power of monsters is, it is a way of giving almost tangible substance to fears, beliefs, things that aren't real. You can coalesce it and draw it, or describe it, and it's a monster."

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Source : Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2009.

Stephen R. Bissette

#Real Quotes #Giving Quotes #Substance Quotes

“Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.”
“. . . I have written a couple of screenplays for studios, and each time has been less gratifying than the last. In my experience, they want no real representations of homosexuality, they want no complexity, they are terrified of ambiguity and unanswered questions - they don't know what they want, except that they want to make lots of money. The only freedom I've ever had as an artist has been in the theatre . . ..”
“TNC was once limited by the resources it could directly marshal to buy land. But teaching people a new idea is incredibly more scalable.”
“The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.”
“Life is true to form, records are meant to be broken”
“Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the last.”

Source : "The Romance and Reality of Foreign Reporting". Interview with Jack Shafer, www.slate.com. December 29, 2009.
“When I'm doing theatre, I feel like my life's on hold. Even though you might go out for a coffee, or go and see a film, your brain is still there, pulling you back to it.”

Source : "Shirley Henderson: I'm every woman" by Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2011.
“I have the best husband one could dream of; I could never have imagined finding one like him. He is a true gift of heaven, and the more we live together the more we love each other.”

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