"In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival."

-- Chaim Potok

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“I didn't fight this fight for the blacks, the whites or the Spanish, I fought th fight for the people. We're all God's children. I don't see color. I'm not a racist When I look at Gerry Cooney, I just see a man trying to take my head off.”
“Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.”
“He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time.”
“I hate the photo shoots. I hate all that stuff.”
“If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.”
“The vampire or the bad guy, that's what people do remember. Lars von Trier, like Guy Maddin, their films are made for a group of exclusive people who like special films. And they are special films, they are art films. And I started with commercial films at the beginning, and later on, because you know, when you are an actor, you have the same clichÃ© like everybody else, you want to be in big films, you want to be known and all that.”
“The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.”
“There are certain things in which one is unable to believe for the simple reason that he never ceases to feel them. Things of this sort - things which are always inside of us and in fact are us and which consequently will not be pushed off or away where we can begin thinking about them - are no longer things; they, and the us which they are, equals A Verb; an IS.”

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