"I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits."

-- Daniel Woodrell

#Pits Quotes #World Quotes #Born Quotes

“The fact that certain composers have been able to create first-class music within the medium of film proves that film music can be as good as the composer is gifted.”

Source : "Music for the Movies". Book by Tony Thomas, p. 209, 1973.
“It's easy for me not to go to Mass on the road. But I've made a fundamental decision. I'm going to be dedicated. I'm going to make the time. I'm going to get up, if that means getting up at seven on a Sunday morning before a day game and do it, I'm going to do it.”

Source : "Talking God and baseball with Mike Piazza". Interview with Michael Kress, www.seattletimes.com. July 21, 2007.
“The Jews are not a part of a vast Whole which they re-integrate in dying, but they are a Whole in themselves, defying space, time, life, and death. Can God be outside the Whole? If he exists, necessarily he confounds himself with this Whole...Thus Divinity in Judaism is contained in the exaltation of the entity represented by the Race - passionnel entity, eternal flame, it is the Divine essence. It must be preserved and perpetuated, therefore the idea of pure and impure was created.”
“Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.”
“The big problem for a democratic government - democrat with a small "d" - is how to hold down government spending.”
“I'm not a master; I'm just a hard-working filmmaker. I would like everyone to see me as a friend rather than a master.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You don't have that interaction with the audience when you're acting for film; you're kind of acting in a vacuum. You're acting for a disinterested grip who just wants to reply to his wife about what time he'll be home for dinner. Everyone else on a film set is also there because they're paid to be there. They're not there because they're passionate about what you do necessarily.”
“I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.”

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