"Sex is perhaps like culture - a luxury that only becomes an art after generations of leisurely acquaintance. Why we scarcely approach either as individuals - it's mass propulsion still!"

-- Alice B. Toklas

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“Power is all. Another falsification; I do not tell how I gain or maintain it. I only record the ginger stroll through the vaguely fetid garden of its rewards.”
“Love is like a shadow, one can only catch it by falling into it.”
“Most animals are like the unfortunate Gregor Samsa after metamorphosis. They are Kafka-creatures, organisms with rich thoughts and emotions but no system for translating what they think into something that they can express to others.”
“We have never heard of laundering in Macau; money laundering is unheard of. Mind you, my casino, every bit of money - someone says Stanley Ho, you issue me a check of so much money - we don't give that easy.”

Source : "Hong Kong Business Tycoon Stanley Ho TalkAsia Interview Transcript". Interview With Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. October 2, 2004.
“I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Gabby Douglas and Mom Natalie Hawkins on Historic Win, Hair, and Inspiring Black Girls". Interview with Yolanda Sangweni, www.essence.com. August 10, 2012.
“First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors, words, and objects in space. It's an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That's what directing is.”

Source : "Directing the Film". Book by Ed Sherman, 1976.
“I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.”
“What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded”

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