"I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history."

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Source : "Likely lads' return" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2004.

Jonathan Coe

#Ideas Quotes #Space Quotes #Narrative Quotes

“Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy.”

Source : Winslow Homer, Lloyd Goodrich, Whitney Museum of American Art (1973). “Winslow Homer”
“In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.”
“The problem with being Comeback Player of the Year is it means you have to go somewhere before you can come back.”
“Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.”
“I think family movies have gotten so rich in this country.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them.”
“If we followed our own advice, we'd be successful.”
“I just don't think CGI is up to manipulating the human face yet. I feel like you can get away with it with aliens or monsters or something that's intentionally foreign, but I have yet to see anything digital to do with the human face that doesn't just look ridiculous.”

Source : "Rian Johnson on his writing process and the appeal of alternate-history films". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 27, 2012.

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