"Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor."

-- Steve Tisch

#Art Quotes #Visionaries Quotes #Sense Of Humor Quotes

“The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.”
“I think there's an audience for The Wombles at almost all levels. We thought it was going to be confined to people in their late twenties, early thirties, who remembered it from before - they were maybe 10 or 12 in the Seventies when it was happening.”

Source : Press launch of The Wombles Collection, www.tidybag.uk. November 2000.
“In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.”
“The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.”
“What would've happened, do you think, had the government not intervened in October 2008? The catastrophe to the economy would've been absolutely unbelievable. And yet classical economists say, "Oh, well, no, it would've adjusted perfectly happily, a few weeks of pain and then everything would've gone on as before, without a banking system left." And that's what makes it so maddening, that these bankers are back saying it was all the government's fault. The government saved their skins. It didn't want to, but it needed to save their skins in order to save the rest of us.”
“As a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success, which in the long run comes only to the one who combines daring with cool thinking.”
“The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does not understand, just as a magnetic somnambulist gives information about things of which she has no conception when she is awake. Therefore in the composer, more than in any other artist, the man is entirely separate and distinct from the artist.”
“A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.”

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