"Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns."

-- Mike Royko

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“Although as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the chorus of foolers and fooled, still there is left to the genuine works of all times a quite peculiar, silent, slow, and powerful influence; and as if by a miracle, we see them rise at last out of the turmoil like a balloon that floats up out of the thick atmosphere of this globe into purer regions. Having once arrived there, it remains at rest, and no one can any longer draw it down again.”
“Feel the feeling as though the prayer has already been answered, and in that feeling we are speaking to the Forces of Creation, allowing the world to respond to us.”
“Among all the wonderful things we have, we don't seem to have a time to love. And to me that's the fuel, that's the fuel we need to make the engine go.”
“Fashion is not a real element of beauty in external objects; and to persons who possess a good endowment of Form, Constructiveness and Ideality, intrinsic elegance is much more pleasing and permanently agreeable, than forms of less merit, recommended merely by being new. Hence there is a beauty which never palls, and there are objects over which fashion exercises no control.”
“The more disastrous the mishaps the simpler the reviewing task.”

Source : "Music View; When Inspired Awfulness Becomes Interesting" by Donal Henahan, www.nytimes.com. August 31, 1986.
“I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.”
“If they be principles evident of themselves, they need nothing to evidence them.”
“He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.”

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