"Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable."

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Source : Ned Rorem (2013). “Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary”, p.110, Open Road Media

Ned Rorem

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“That's what a powerful story does. It creates a more intense experience of life for you to watch. That's what a good film does for me, anyway. That process, I enjoy. It just makes for entertaining characters and entertaining films.”

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“Anxiety uses imagination to picture something you don't want. Vision uses imagination to picture something you DO want. Either way, you tend to get what you focus on. Imagine a future where you shine, others thrive, and the light of hope shines brighter in the world. If you can see it, you can be it.”
“And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.”
“People are disappointed if you're not entertaining and to be entertaining often means to be drunk.”
“I definitely have a little attraction to bad guys, but they have to be sweethearts underneath. After all, I like to be treated well.”
“I hated the place (Hollywood), not the work, but the lack of privacy, those terrible prying fan magazine writers and all the surrounding exploitation.”
“Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment.”
“And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of mans deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news-- that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.”

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