"If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth"

-- Alan K. Simpson

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“Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.”
“My aim is to communicate with the last man in the audience. Art minus communication is meaningless. The term 'abhinaya' is not just facial expressions. It means drawing the spectator to an idea. Look at the modern advertisements. It's contemporary abhinaya. But one who creates should know what has to be completely and what has to be suggestively portrayed. That is ethical aesthetics. The Natyasastra says a production must be such that a family should be able to watch it together.”
“A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.”
“I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war.”
“Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle... If you don't pedal you don't go forward.”
“You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I am sure there will be many actors from our part of the world that will be acting in Hollywood films.”
“Our tendency is to be strong, self-sufficient, and dependent on our own willpower, but rather than try harder, we should reach out to the God who is all-powerfulâ€¦”

Source : "Where Is God". Book by John Townsend, 2009.
“Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Alexander. You must write according to your feelings, be sure those feelings are true, and let everything else go hang. When a line is good it ceases to belong to any school. A line of prose must be as immutable as a line of poetry.”

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