"The dean of the American Film Institute has written that I'm one of the very few auteurs in America. I've had freedom for 40 years to create art that is totally personal and is what I believe in."

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Source : Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 12, 1997.

Lloyd Kaufman

#Art Quotes #Believe Quotes #Years Quotes

“I read to be alone. I read so as not to be alone.”

Source : Bich Minh Nguyen (2008). “Stealing Buddha's Dinner”, p.92, Penguin
“Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.”
“Whoever makes something having bought or contracted for all other held resources used in the process (transferring some of his holdings for these cooperating factors), is entitled to it. The situation is not one of something's getting made, and there being an open question of who is to get it. Things come into the world already attached to people having entitlements over them.”
“I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby.”
“Being the number one pick was a great opportunity and meant a lot to me.”
“A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point, 1D into line, curved into geodesic...”
“It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.”
“The long summer was over. For ages a tropical climate had prevailed over a great part of the earth, and animals whose home is now beneath the Equator roamed over the world from the far South to the very borders of the Arctics ... But their reign was over. A sudden intense winter, that was also to last for ages, fell upon our globe.”

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