"Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced."

-- Ned Rorem

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“Now that everyone's shooting digital they want the anamorphic to soften the look. You know, to make it more filmic.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Family life in Western society since the time of the Old Testament has been a struggle to maintain patriarchy, male domination, and double standards in the face of a natural drift towards monogamous bonding. Young men have been called upon to prove their masculinity by their willingness to die in warfare, and young women have been called upon to prove their femininity by their willingness to die for their man. Women have been asked to appear small, dumb, and helpless so men would feel big and strong, brave, and clever. It's been a trick.”
“No security guard can stop a refrigerator falling off a skyscraper.”
“Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.”
“Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“People sometimes, they just stop because they see this scope movie. They say "oh, this is a real movie, this is not a TV movie."”
“Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.”

Source : George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.25, The Floating Press
“Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.”

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