"Talent is a valued tormentor."

-- Truman Capote

“But in the time it takes to say now, now is already over. It's already then.”

Source : Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being”, p.88, Canongate Books
“I don't have much use for the concept of innateness. The everyday concept incorporates a number of different notions that can come apart in in many ways, and as a result encourages a range of dangerously fallacious inferences.”

Source : "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.
“The Communist torturers often said, 'There is no God, no hereafter, no punishment for evil. We can do what we wish.' I have heard one torturer even say, 'I thank God, in whom I don't believe, that I have lived to this hour when I can express all the evil in my heart.' He expressed it in unbelievable brutality and torture inflected on prisoners.”
“I wanted to go everywhere. I would have started on a day's notice for the North Pole or the South, to the jungle or the desert. It made not the slightest difference to me.”

Source : Roy Chapman Andrews (2013). “Under a Lucky Star - A Lifetime of Adventure”, p.38, Read Books Ltd
“Lady Dance's music wasn't a magic charm. I'd misunderstood. We had all failed to understand. The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive. 'Rejoice,' came the soft voice of Lady Dance in my mind. 'Watch the moon and stars...' Death had ruled my life till I met Lady Dance. Her dance had set me free.”
“In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity”
“People really have to start being a smarter consumer, read labels, and understand what hidden sugars are.”

Source : Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. May 25, 2008.
“I pride myself on doing character-driven movies and, when my movies have worked, it's been because of the right casting and the right character, and it just clicks.”

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