"The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them."

-- Gary Saul Morson

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“Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for a moment, it is enough”
“In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone else's song, has a responsibility to make a distinct and original statement.”
“I don't watch the dailies. You want to just turn in your resignation when you watch the dailies.”

Source : "Richard Jenkins Exclusive Interview LET ME IN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. September 30, 2010.
“There is nothing more powerful and beautiful than motherhood.”
“Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand.”
“There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation.”
“He made all countries where he came his own.”
“Everyone needs to be able to have their own space in which to be themselves.”

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