"In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a patient or as a doctor, we have only one commercial American filmmaker who consistently speaks with his own voice. That is Woody Allen, gag writer, musician, humorist, philosopher, playwright, stand-up comic, film star, film writer and film director."

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Source : The New York Times, July 17, 1983.

Vincent Canby

#Stars Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Greatness Quotes

“When you have fans who are hassling you the entire game and you ignore them, they respect you because their job is to try and distract you. And if they don't distract you, that means you're focused on doing your job. And who knows, by the end, sometimes you even win them over.”
“He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world!”
“My favorite time of the holidays is when the children have torn open their loot and delivered their verdicts and are looking to you for something else ... memories that have nothing to do with things bought.”
“In Europe, people tend to be very respectful. They try not to make too much noise at inappropriate times. In other countries, people can be very still. Sometimes I'm not sure if a crowd is into it until the end, when they usually want me to do something crazy for the encore.”
“What we once thought of as necessary and proper reasons for ostracizing and marginalizing gay people, we now understand do not justify that kind of oppression.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“Given man's nature, freedom will always be in jeopardy, and the only question that need concern each of us is if and how well we took our stand in its defense during the short period of time when we were potentially a part of the struggle.”

Source : Benjamin A. Rogge (1979). “Can Capitalism Survive?”, Liberty Fund
“Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”

Source : Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.360, Thomas Hardy
“One consistent thing in an otherwise inconsistent career is that I've always been passionate about parliament.”

Source : Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.

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