"As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice."

-- Tony Kushner

#Art Quotes #Hate Quotes #Practice Quotes

“Don't ever feel inhibited. It's harder to censor yourself than to just be yourself.”
“Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.”
“The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.”

Source : Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1885). “Margaret Fuller Ossoli”, p.289, Ardent Media
“Autumn has come to northeast Montana. The vapor of oneâ€™s breath, the clarity of the stars, the smell of wood smoke, the stones underfoot that even a full day of sunlight wonâ€™t warm- these all say there will be no more days that can be mistaken for summer.”
“The same one who mistreated you will end up needing you.... It is the circle of life.”
“Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.”
“That's a number that in broadcasting is unimaginable.”
“If the overall quality of your film depends on what you shot it on, you aren't ready to make a film.”

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