"I'm not committed as a writer, in the usual sense of the term, either religiously or politically. And I'm not conscious of any particular social function. IÂ write because IÂ want to write. I don't see any placards on myself, and I don't carry any banners."

-- Harold Pinter

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“I'm 5-foot-5, and I'll wear a big parka and put the hood up, and nobody gives me a second glance.”
“It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which nothing seems able to break.”
“I really moved fast, bro. I don't want a big selection, because I don't want myself in between nobody else's problems, basically. Like, if I know these two people going at it, I'm not about to make a song with either one of them.”
“Breaking new factual ground is not what Zeitgeist is about, however. Rather, the video is a powerful and fast-acting dose of agitprop, hawking its conclusions as givens. Unfortunately, like most propaganda, it doesnâ€™t play fair with its intended audience. At times, while watching it, I felt like I was getting Malcolm McDowellâ€™s treatment in Clockwork Orange: eyes pried wide open while getting bombarded with quick-cut atrocity photos.”
“Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.”
“I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually.”
“A movie is never finished, only abandoned.”
“Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.”

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