"The feature film business, the studio film business, feels to me like there's just nowhere else to go. It's like a record that's just skipping at the end, with the needle stuck in the run-out groove."

-- Matthew Specktor

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“There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it's why you want to become a writer â€” because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.”
“While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one”

Source : Henry Seidel Canby (1902). “The Short Story”
“I have an evening dress, pink mull over silk (I'm perfectly beautiful in that), and a blue church dress, and a dinner dress of red veiling with Oriental trimming (makes me look like a Gipsy), and another of rose-coloured challis, and a grey street suit, and an every-day dress for classes. That wouldn't be an awfully big wardrobe for Julia Rutledge Pendleton, perhaps, but for Jerusha Abbott - Oh, my!”
“As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America was beginning its dominance of the art world with the emergence of the Abstract Expressionists.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.”

Source : Tony Horwitz (2010). “Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War”, p.151, Vintage
“There is, in the heart, the hard-rendering profit. As if we were plucking the leaves from the trees.”

Source : Katy Lederer (2008). “The Heaven-sent Leaf: Poems”, Boa Editions
“The trick is to get people to read anything, to engender the love of reading. Once you can read, you can teach yourself anything. Librarians are key, I think. They hold the power to empower.”
“I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.”

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