"One thing I definitely experienced up here (New York), that maybe I have to sort of cop to feeling defensive about, is since the election, people in my cohort, who are sensitive to portrayals of people in the movie as classist, have had no problem coming up with those sorts of [middle-American] stereotypes about a phantom real person they can blame for re-electing George Bush."

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Source : Source: www.indiewire.com

Philip Morrison

#New York Quotes #Real Quotes #People Quotes

“It seems silly, but it mattered to Gord Downie. I don't know if I necessarily felt like it had to be one or the other, but he really wanted that engagement: "If you think it should be 'the' then tell me why it should be 'the.' " 'Uh, okay, well...' He was really serious.”
“To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows,We drained a hundred jugs of wine.A splendid night it was . . . .In the clear moonlight we were loath to go to bed,But at last drunkenness overtook us;And we laid ourselves down on the empty mountain,The earth for pillow, and the great heaven for coverlet”

Source : Li Po, “A Mountain Revelry”
“To be honest, I miss the old Hollywood way of having some mystique about the star.”
“Also the fact that anything he does is seen and heard by the entire country, not just his actual audience or those who live in the region he happens to be in.”
“Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.”
“I got swirling eyes and the capacity to shatter windows with my bare voice. Tod got teleportation and invisibility. The supernatural world is so far from fair.”

Source : Rachel Vincent (2010). “My Soul to Keep”, p.16, Harlequin
“Russians don't take a dump, son, without a plan.”
“Dreams have a hard time surviving when confronted with reality.”

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