"You need to react. That's the absurdity of Twitter. You can react without thinking now."

-- Raoul Peck

#Thinking Quotes #Needs Quotes #Absurdity Quotes

“I'm a New Yorker. I'm liberal and open-minded. Things don't really shock me. But I was reading the second-act today and thinking that if you're religious, you could be. But you shouldn't be! You can be extremely religious and have your faith and still be open-minded to art. Because this is art. That's part of the excitement. It literally is "The Jerry Springer Show" on-stage set to beautiful operatic music. That's what's so incredible about it!”
“To me writing was not a career but a necessity. And so it remains, though I am now, technically, a professional writer. The strength of this inborn desire to write has always baffled me. It is understandable that the really gifted should feel an overwhelming urge to use their gift; but a strong urge with only a slight gift seems almost a genetic mistake.”
“Oh, I suppose my wife and I will open a bottle of champagne with another couple.”

Source : "Paul Scofield, Commanding Actor of the British Stage, Is Dead at 86" by Robert Simonson, www.playbill.com. March 20, 2008.
“The moment when a limit is reached, when there is nothing ahead but darkness: something comes in to help that is not real. Another way all this is like madness: a mad person not helped out of his trouble by anything real begins to trust what is not real because it helps him and he needs it because real things continue not to help him.”

Source : Lydia Davis (2008). “Break It Down: Stories”, p.15, Macmillan
“My big places to shop are Wal-Mart and Target - seriously. That is where half of my stuff comes from now.”
“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.”
“To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.”
“Every season, I take the opportunity to convey a much larger message than just hemlines and trends.”

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