"So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less."

-- Douglas Sirk

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“No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny them to others.”

Source : Tammy Bruce (2010). “The New Thought Police: Inside the Left's Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds”, p.58, Crown
“There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.”
“[A]ny musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.”
“Live every day to fulfill your personal mission. God has a reason for whatever season you are living through right now. A season of loss or blessing? A season of activity or hibernation? A season of growth or incubation? You may think you're on a detour, but God knows the best way for you to reach your destination.”

Source : Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.54, Zondervan
“Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension.”
“Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To leave a book is like leaving the better part of oneself.”

Source : Dacia Maraini, Dick Kitto, Elspeth Spottiswood (1999). “The Silent Duchess”, p.255, Feminist Press at CUNY
“Everything seems impossible until you see success.”

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