"Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard."

-- Herman Kahn

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“Whatever I write in email, it doesn't mean anything. It is just words I write.”
“Those who see Smith as a defender of capitalism - as it existed in Marx's day, or as it exists today - show above all that they are not living in the real world. They are behaving as though the undeveloped form of capitalism Smith studied is still with us.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.”
“When you're in sync with the director, on the type of movie you want to make, the arc of the characters, how the characters intertwine and interact, plotlines and story, and things like that, it really makes a difference.”
“but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.”

Source : Dean Young (2007). “Embryoyo”, McSweeneys Books
“Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.”

Source : Stanley Kunitz, Kent P. Ljungquist (2013). “Conversations with Stanley Kunitz”, p.69, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“A child gets sick with a chronic disease of unhappiness not from unhappy circumstances but from unhappy people around him. Unhappy people cannot raise happy children; it's impossible.”

Source : Simon Soloveychik (2010). “Parenting for Everyone: Where Do Good Children Come From?”, p.30, Aigul Aubanova
“Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing... you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and its usually - mostly - the first take thats the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter.”

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