"There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art."

-- Neil Gaiman

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“Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball.”
“When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.”
“Keeping your coat on indoors in Russia, no matter how public the place, is far worse than keeping your hat on as the flag goes by. It is worse than going into a Catholic church in Spain with your upper arms bare. It is worse than telling a mother her baby bores you.”
“But well-a-day, the gardener careless grew, The maids and fairies both were kept away, And in a drought the caterpillars threw Themselves upon the bud and every spray. God shield the stock! if Heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.”

Source : William Browne, of Tavistock, “The Rose”
“Imagination is a valuable asset in business and she has a sister, Understanding, who also serves. Together they make a splendid team and business problems dissolve and the impossible is accomplished by their ministrations.... Imagination concerning the world's wants and the individual's needs should be the Alpha and Omega of self-education.”
“I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.”
“It was daunting at first. I did have insomnia for two weeks.”

Source : "Coming at rock from odd angles" By Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. December 4, 2003.
“My first trip abroad was to do a TV version of "Les Miserables" in France with Anthony Perkins. There I was at 12 acting with the guy from Psycho (1960). My parents were teachers, and it was hard for them to relate to that world.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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