"There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing."

-- Elliott Smith

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“Could I have made mistakes? One does not build cities if one is guided by doubt. But can one govern in absolute certainty? I know that my beliefs have elevated me, just as I know that the things I have rejected would have destroyed me. But the city... it is collapsing before my... have I become so convinced by my own beliefs that I have stopped seeing the truth? Perhaps. But Atlas is out there, and he aims to destroy me, and destroy my city. To question is to surrender. I will not question.”
“Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!”
“You were ambitious - for your life, what it was like when you woke up in the morning, and not for some attainment. Like most people who did not answer a particular calling from an early age, you placed work beside yourself; any occupation would fill up your day but not your heart. I liked that about you. I liked it enormously.”
“Barack Obama says that we need to be humble toward terrorism. Yet he is the one we have been waiting for. That is humble?”
“America needs a Commander in Chief, not a Global Community Organizer.”

Source : "Liz Cheney Slams Obama On Foreign Policy: 'America Needs A Commander In Chief, Not A Global Community Organizer'". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2009.
“I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.”
“I can't wait to do a fully improvised script again, to find people who are really comfortable and into it. It's about the capabilities of the people you're working with, what are their strengths and weaknesses. Some of the most brilliant actors need the spine of the text to work off of, and there's no shame in that; they're actors, not writers.”

Source : "Lynn Shelton On ‘Touchy Feely,’ Improvisation & Having Catherine Keener As A Casting Director". Interview with Oliver Lyttelton, www.indiewire.com. May 2, 2013.
“To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have responsibility.”

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