"Writers who go to Hollywood still follow the classic pattern: either you get disgusted by 'them' and you leave or you want the money and you become them."

-- Pauline Kael

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“There are millions of gay people in the United States, including well-known celebrities.”

Source : Mary Cheney (2006). “Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life”, Pocket Books
“I saw that a humble man, with the blessing of the Lord, might live on a little; and that where the heart is set on greatness, success in business did not satisfy the craving, but that commonly with an increase of wealth, the desire of wealth increased.”

Source : John Woolman (2013). “journal”, p.35, Lulu.com
“You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.”

Source : "Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape". Book by Joseph Koerner, 1990.
“I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself”
“I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.”
“I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.”
“But celebrity really doesn't mean anything unless you use it for finding some way to give back and I've always felt that way.”
“It's like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that with music and it would just be awful.”

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