"applause, n. The echo of a platitude."

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Ambrose Bierce

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“It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his dreams.”
“Photography was increasingly being seen as something outside the art world. As a sort of illustration. They just fired the director of photography at the Sunday Times Magazine - that's where everyone went with their photo essays in the '60s, '70s, and '80s. It was the place to get published. It is an issue. And I feel it. There's no budget. The budget-holders are very often people who've been to the professional colleges where art is not taught. So art as a part of education is something that's missing - since Thatcher's day, anyway.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.”
“I was so dyslexic as a kid, and still am, and music was such a great form of escape to me. At school I'd keep my head down and try not to get beat up, and then I'd get home and music would be like a drug to me.”
“You don't actually need to know anything, you can find out at the point when you need to know it. It's the teachers job to point young minds towards the right kind of question, a teacher doesn't need to give any answers because answers are everywhere.”
“I was crushingly bored talking about politics 30 hours a week.”

Source : "Art Bell: Radio's Master Of The Unexplained Explains Himself". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. April 20, 2009.
“It's been very nice. I haven't gotten out too much because we've been working a lot but other wise the people have been very nice and I've had a good time.”
“It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.”

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