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Syd Barrett
"A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing."
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Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
Syd Barrett
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“A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world. At a time when all too many of our leading thinkers are mired in the weeds of provincialism and narrow ideological wars, Postel has written a work of grace, intelligence, and towering integrity. Reading 'Legitimation Crisis' in Tehran is nothing less than a masterpiece of moral and political criticism.”
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“I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!”
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“A politician or political thinker who calls himself a political realist is usually boasting that he sees politics, so to speak, in the raw; he is generally a proclaimed cynic and pessimist who makes it his business to look behind words and fine speeches for the motive. This motive is always low.”
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“A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed.”
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“a novel is not born of a single idea. The stories I've tried to write from one idea, no matter how terrific an idea, have sputtered out and died by chapter three. For me, novels have invariably come from a complex of ideas that in the beginning seemed to bear no relation to each other, but in the unconscious began mysteriously to merge and grow. Ideas for a novel are like the strong guy lines of a spider web. Without them the silken web cannot be spun.”
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“You want to take some responsibility for you choices so that it sets the groundwork for that next generation of actresses.”
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“Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?”
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“In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second.”
