"Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money."

-- David Geffen

“I used to get so comfortable running the hurdles, I was just like a ballet dancer going out there and going through the routines.”
“The overall strength of Chinese culture and its international influence is not commensurate with China's international status. The international culture of the West is strong while we are weak.”

Source : "China's President Lashes Out at Western Culture" by Edward Wong, www.nytimes.com. January 3, 2012.
“Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of Europe.”
“Ive inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.”
“Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.”
“E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.' You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.”
“With lacquerware there is an extra beauty in that moment between removing the lid and lifting the bowl to the mouth, when one gazes at the still, silent liquid in the dark depths of the bowl, its colour hardly differing from that of the bowl itself. What lies within the darkness one cannot distinguish, but the palm senses the gentle movements of the liquid, vapour rises from within, forming droplets on the rim, and the fragrance carried upon the vapour brings a delicate anticipation ... a moment of mystery, it might almost be called, a moment of trance.”
“In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.”

Source : Luigi Pirandello (1962). “To clothe the naked: and two other plays”

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