"If the NSF had never existed, if the government had never funded American mathematics, we would have half as many mathematicians as we now have, and I don't see anything wrong with that."

-- Paul Halmos

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“In France, it is television that pays for films to be made and I received all of my funding from TV: two television channels, government funding and distributor contribution (Wild Bunch). My films are low-budget, and not expensive [to make].”

Source : "Emmanuelle Bercot on Portraying the Juvenile Justice System in Cannes 2015 Opener ‘Standing Tall’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. March 29, 2016.
“The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you.”
“Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.”
“It's never over till it's over with a friend.”

Source : Howard Jacobson (2010). “The Finkler Question”, p.46, A&C Black
“Life was not intended to be simply a round of work, no matter how interesting and important that work may be. A momentâ€™s pause to watch the glory of a sunrise or a sunset is soul-satisfying, while a bird's song will set the steps to music all day long.”

Source : Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc
“The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.”
“Some of songs are autobiographical and some of it is more telling a story from someone else's perspective. It's healthy for me to do that because, oftentimes, it can become too narcissistic if I'm trying to express myself all of the time. My problems are what I'm going through and sometimes it's nice to take a step back and feel what someone else is going through and that can help.”

Source : Source: www.songfacts.com
“Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.”

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