"I suppose it’s true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. “M.A.S.H.” comes to mind. So does The Iliad."

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Source : "Don’t Watch" by Kevin Bleyer, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2005.

Kevin Bleyer

#Art Quotes #Mind Quotes #Television Quotes

“A champion is simply someone who did not give up when he wanted to.”
“When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage and faith, soothe pain, give an ideal life those whose hours are cold and hard, bind together distant ages and foreign lands, create new worlds of beauty, bring down truth from heaven; I give eternal blessings for this gift, and thank God for books.”

Source : James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture: Physical, Intellectual, Moral, and Spiritual : a Course of Lectures”
“My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.”
“I consider Madonna a friend, and she sure knows how to work the publicity machine. Of course, I don't have breasts. If I did have, I'd be in the number one spot over Madonna.”
“I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel. I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.”
“People fear the unforeseen and the unseen. Truth be told we all fear the unseen.”
“From the earliest colonial days [in America], local governments took responsibility for their poor. However, able-bodied men and women generally were not supported by the taxpayers unless they worked.”

Source : Thomas G. West (2000). “Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America”, p.132, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
“Violence cannot destroy the body of the Goddess, for Her body is the world itself.”

Source : Rachel Pollack (1997). “The Body of the Goddess: Sacred Wisdom in Myth, Landscape and Culture”, Element Books Limited

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