"Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it."

-- Publilius Syrus

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“The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.”
“A liar is always lavish of oaths.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Le Menteur, III. 5, p. 485-87, 1922.
“I throw a lot more punches than Floyd [ Mayweather]. He's very efficient with his punches and when he throws he lands a very high percentage but he's not exceptionally busy every round.”
“I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film.”
“Itâ€™s difficult to find a person who can accept the truth consistently and more when it is related to him only and thatâ€™s what keeps the difference between the real talk and the negative talk very marginal.”
“We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home.”

Source : "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.
“Don Juan assured me that in order to accomplish the feat of making myself miserable I had to work in the most intense fashion, and that it was absurd. I had now realized I could work just the same in making myself complete and strong. "The trick is in what one emphasizes," he said. "We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."”
“Love is light, warmth and comfort. Understanding is just light.”

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