"I'm not a success, I'm a sensation."

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Source : "Cold War, Hot Pianist. Now Add 50 Years" by Anthony Tommasini, www.nytimes.com. March 9, 2008.

Van Cliburn

“The title's so upfront. It gives fair warning about the play's content. I'm writing about a kind of disenchantment, an anger, but quite a cool 90's anger, at a time when we're not very good at openly being angry. . . . I don't think I ever thought the title was titillating. I thought it was incredibly catchy. If the play is about the reduction in human relations down to a consumerist rationale, then thematically, the title is entirely linked into the thesis of the play.”
“It's a corny old gag about Las Vegas, the temporal city if there ever was one, trying to camouflage the hours and ***** the dawn, when everybody knows that if you're feeling lucky you're really feeling time in its rawest form, and if you're not feeling lucky, they've got a clock at the bus station.”

Source : Guy Peellaert, Michael Herr (1986). “The big room”
“The Spaniards are perfectly right to govern these barbarians of the New World and adjacent islands; they are in prudence, ingenuity, virtue, and humanity as inferior to the Spaniards as children are to adults and women are to men, there being as much difference between them as that between wild and cruel and very merciful persons, the prodigiously intemperate and the continent and tempered, and I daresay from apes to men”
“When you crash into the living God, the encounter is certain to renovate every square inch of your life's boat.”
“If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.”
“I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.”
“Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don't have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.”

Source : "Sir Ben Kingsley Talks the Boxtrolls, What Convinced Him to Voice an Animated Villain, His Opinion of the Shakespearean Snatcher, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. September 20, 2014.
“Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.”

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