"I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me."

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Source : "Lying with the best of them" by Ralph Steadman, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

Ralph Steadman

#Artist Quotes #Splits Quotes #Verbs Quotes

“The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.”
“I don't take criticism lying down.”
“I was Hannah Montana's mother ... Where did I go wrong?”
“I may be a lunatic, but then, wasn't my lunacy caused by a monster that lurks at the bottom of every human mind? Those who call me a madman and spurn me may become lunatics tomorrow. They harbor the same monster.”
“I stand by the Lost finale. It's the story that we wanted to tell, and we told it. No excuses. No apologies. I look back on it as fondly as I look back on the process of writing the whole show. And while I'll always care what you think, I can't be a slave to it anymore. Here's why: I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really â€¦ I was alive.”

Source : "Damon Lindelof on Why 'Breaking Bad's' Finale Let Him Say Goodbye to 'Lost' (Guest Column)" by Damon Lindelof, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 2, 2013.
“I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant”
“This is everything to me. If I don't have this, I don't know what else I'll be doing. I personally have found where I belong. You can cut back to photos of me holding, uh, paper championships. That was truly my dream. This is what I was born to do. As far as walking away from all this to do something else, I don't..I just don't...I don't see the rationality.”
“I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.”

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