"Sometimes the world is so beautiful it hurts."

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Source : Tom Spanbauer (2007). “Now Is the Hour”, p.419, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Tom Spanbauer

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“I teach film directing, inasmuch as you can. Its not really possible to teach film direction, but I sit there as a sort of testimony of experience and know-how, I suppose.”
“it is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by its false morality; it is mischievous by its hypocrisy; by its fanaticism; by its dogmatism; by its threats; by its hopes; by its promises.”

Source : Frances Wright (1850). “A few days in Athens: being the translation of a Greek manuscript discovered in Herculaneum”, p.203
“One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice.”
“You must be wise, but not too wise.”
“The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and nature of the stories that you want to tell.”
“I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a few expressions and faces, with some intonation that combines ancient human experience with timely coquetry.”

Source : "Erland Josephson obituary" by Ronald Bergan, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2012.
“If my musical tastes are continuing to grow up, and I am not really too interested in the music that my kids listen to, then I assume that the audience is doing the same.”
“There was a moment when the Berlin Wall came down and some people felt, "Oh capitalism won. That's the ideology we can believe in now."”

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