"The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it."

-- Axel Munthe

#Freedom Quotes #Bars Quotes #Cages Quotes

“If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative.”
“Even though you try to put people under control, it is impossible. You cannot do it. The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous. Then they will be in control in a wider sense. To give your sheep or cow a large spacious meadow is the way to control him. So it is with people: first let them do what they want, and watch them. This is the best policy. To ignore them is not good. That is the worst policy. The second worst is trying to control them. The best one is to watch them, just to watch them, without trying to control them.”
“...the Government must not think that they can stop this agitation. It will go on...We are here not because we are law-breakers; we are here in out efforts to become law-makers.”
“When a country wants television more than they want clean water, they've lost their grip.”
“I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a scene with terror, grandeur, gaiety, or misery. It can propel narrative switftly forward, or slow it down. It often lifts mere dialogue into the realm of poetry. Finally, it is the communicating link between the screen and the audience, reaching out and enveloping all into one single experience.”
“Minsk! How pissed-off that sounded! It was great. You could scare the bejayzus out of someone if you said it right.”
“I tend to a lot of improvisational ranting, and that's fun. For me, stand-up has been, performance-wise, a really good outlet.”

Source : Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. January 28, 2008.
“In Western Civilization, our elders are books.”

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