"No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything."

-- Toni Morrison

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“Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.”
“The influence of friendship upon culture differs from that of love, in that it assumes the basic idiosyncrasies of personal taste to be unalterable. Love, in spite of all rational knowledge to the contrary, is always in the mood of believing in miracles.”

Source : "The Meaning of Culture". Book by John Cowper Powys, p. 170, 1929.
“I just want to do good work. That's all I want to do. I don't have big aspirations like being the President of the United States, I just want to do good work. That's all.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Frank Oz Works His Magic with Death at a Funeral". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 4, 2008.
“At a certain age, you have to choose between your face and your ass.”
“I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.”
“The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a child.”
“In prose fiction the freedom to work honestly exists, although you may have to fight for it. In those other areas of literature, I mean drama, there is only silence. That sort of aesthetic integrity does not exist in radio and television, and seldom on film.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Somebody'll be me, tomorrow or whenever. I've been doing this awhile. My time's limited. I've been doing this awhile.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com

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