"Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow in it."

-- Brooks Atkinson

#People Quotes #Degenerates Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“The minute I know it's real to the minute we start shooting, I will work on the script, breaking it down and working on the character, doing as much research as I possibly can to the point where I feel like I eat, sleep and breathe it without looking at a page. Then I go in and try to forget all of it and just be there.”
“An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.”
“I don't go out that much anymore, unfortunately. I used to enjoy it, but I'm just so busy. Like last night, everybody else went out, and I just went straight home and went to bed.”
“Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.”
“But a topee is not a turban, and I had been my teacher's pupil before I became my husband's wife, learning to my bones that half a disguise is none at all...The moment my short-cropped, pomade-sleek, unquestionably masculine hair passed beneath his nose was the closest thing I've ever seen Holmes to fainting dead away.”
“Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.”
“The real middle class India that has always been looking for a voice that is its very own. I write about it because I belong to it.”
“Pray on, dear one- the power lies that way”

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