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“Serious music isn't listened to in a casual setting. You don't want to listen to that in headphones on the subway.”
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“Our past can control today and tomorrow only to the degree we allow it. The past should not be a place where we dwell but a place from which we learn all we can and then move on.”
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“If I panic, everyone else panics.”
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“Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.”
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“Oaths and curses are a proof of a most heroic courage, at least in appearance, which answers the same end.”
Source : Mary Collyer (1749). “Felicia To Charlotte: Being Letters From A Young Lady in the Country, To Her Friend in Town : Containing A Series of the Most Interesting Events, Interspersed with Moral Reflections ...”, p.203
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“Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.”
Source : Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.52, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.”
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“You have to be ruthless with yourself, in terms of being honest about what is working and what is not.”
Source : "Patton Oswalt Talks TRAGEDY PLUS COMEDY EQUALS TIME, Doing Another Stand-Up Special, Preparing to Shoot Live Performances & Upcoming TV Guest Spots". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 16, 2014.