"making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies are mirages created, finally, by their editors."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Editors Quotes #Cities Quotes #Judgement Quotes

“When Tiger was 6 months old, he would sit in our garage, watching me hit balls into a net. He had been assimilating his golf swing. When he got out of the high chair, he had a golf swing.”
“Thereâ€™s a time and purpose for being lost. If you donâ€™t judge the being lost you get through it sooner.”
“Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way ... Only the graduate student, poor beast of burden that he is, can be expected to know a little of each. As the number of physicists increases, each specialty becomes more self-sustaining and self-contained. Such Balkanization carries physics, and indeed, every science further away, from natural philosophy, which, intellectually, is the meaning and goal of science.”

Source : New Scientist, Vol. 21, No. 374, January 16, 1964.
“Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.”
“Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.”

Source : "Afghan official: U.S. strike hits tribal delegates", www.cnn.com. December 22, 2001.
“Educational progress is a national concern; education is a private one.”
“If you were my agent and I was making $10 million a movie and made four movies a year, that means you have a salary of $4 million.”
“I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible.”

Source : Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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