"The more we give away, the richer we become."

-- Eben Moglen

“If the overall quality of your film depends on what you shot it on, you aren't ready to make a film.”
“Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for the painter.”
“I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks. I see people depressed and I see people who devalue themselves and I feel that's a terrible, terrible waste. But I love the people who try. But try fairly, try honestly.”

Source : Interview with Leonard Pitts, Jr., kirbymuseum.org. 1986/7.
“I know I can't tell you what it's like to be gay. But I can tell you what it's not. It's not hiding behind words, Mama. Like family and decency and Christianity.”

Source : Armistead Maupin (1989). “Tales of the city ; More tales of the city ; Further tales of the city: an omnibus”, Vintage
“I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.”
“When we control business in the public interest we are also bound to encourage it in the public interest or it will be a bad thing for everybody and worst of all for those on whose behalf the control is nominally exercised.”
“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.”

Source : Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.426, Simon and Schuster
“Play is the work of childhood.”

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