"Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So when we thing we've escaped the unbearable ordinariness and, well, untruthfulness of our lives, it's really only the same old ordinariness and falseness rearranged into the appearance of novelty and truth. Nothing unknown is knowable. Don't you think it's depressing?"

-- Tony Kushner

#Depressing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“Now you look here. All your father ever dreamed of for you was to do something you loved in life. He didn't care about fancy qualifications or fancy clothes or cars, just that you were both happy and fulfilled. He was so excited about your dreams for a career.”
“When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.”
“To see all the fans getting into it, that's pretty special.”
“All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.”

Source : Stephen J. Gendzier, Denis Diderot (1967). “Denis Diderot's The Encyclopedia: selections ; edited and translated by Stephen J. Genzier”
“Sometimes desire is air, sometimes desire is liquid. And every now and then, when everything else is air and liquid, desire solidifies, and the body is the magnet that draws its weight.”
“I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.”
“I feel like Im able to relate to all races of people because when you learn to tap into the raw emotion of a person, that goes past color.”
“I don't think many people can say they've been the lead in a Spielberg film and still been able to live their normal life that they had before.”

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