"We say that life is sweet, its satisfactions deep. All this we say, as we sleepwalk our time through years of days and nights. We let time cascade over us like a waterfall, believing it to be never-ending. Yet each day that touches us, and every man in the world, is unique; irredeemable; over. And just another Monday."

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Source : Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

Josephine Hart

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“In a zero-sum game, the problem is entirely one of distribution, not at all one of production.”

Source : Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.202, Columbia University Press
“I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isn't you, but the part.”
“Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.”
“I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.”

Source : Guardian interviews at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. 15 November, 1999.
“Without a single shot we've managed to liberate the world of communism but now there is a need for a global solidarity.”
“I don't think we're ever going to be in a position where we can say this is the template, this is the checklist, that must be met [for intervention].”
“The dead should not rule the living”
“Do I have a problem with Larry Ellison buying Sun? No, that's part of the capitalist system. As soon as we go public we're for sale, that's part of the deal. And do I have a problem with him exercising his intellectual property rights? No, I don't have a problem with that. Would it be how we necessarily ran and operated? Obviously not.”

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