"What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering."

-- Katherine Dunn

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“It is night, And it is vanity, and age Blackens the heart of Adam. Fear, The yellow chirper, beaks its cage.”

Source : Robert Lowell (1964). “Poems, 1938-1949”
“Circumstances and crises are God's tools to move you into your purpose and the maximizing of your potential.”
“I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.”

Source : The Little Engine That Could (1930)
“The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.”
“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.”
“I was raised a Southern Baptist, and my whole family were Christians. However, my Dad was really into science and astronomy, so I felt very balanced. I still had respect for faith.”

Source : "Footloose's Craig Brewer, Julianne Hough, and Kenny Wormald". Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. October 13, 2011.
“Death is the most blessed dream.”

Source : "Leonce and Lena". Play by Georg Büchner, Act II, 1838.
“The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.”

Source : John C. Calhoun “The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 2”, Jazzybee Verlag

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