"One of the things that sets Oliver Stone apart though is he is commercial. He is mainstream. He makes big movies and he is one of the last guys that can make big movies that actually have something to say, that you know challenge the audience in a way while entertaining them."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

John Buffalo Mailer

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“I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.”
“Every time I would give a talk, someone would say, 'You ought to go into politics.' I prefer to call it government leadership. My life has taken me to places where I have experiences that I think I can share. A lot of times, we see people who are career politicians. I'm not the conventional candidate, nor do I want to be.”
“There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom living; there are the hosts of different invertebrate creatures on the sea-floor; and there are those almost grotesque forms of pelagic life in the oceans depths. Then there are the squids and cuttlefish, and the porpoises, dolphins and great whales.”
“I write about life as it exists within houses and on the streets. And there's nothing, hopefully, in any of my characterizations or in any of my plottings or in any of my valuations that doesn't ring true to life. I'm a novelist. I'm not a theoretician.”
“Limericks don't come from Limerick. But it comes from that between the verses when they used to have those competitions that they would put in the refrain, "follow me up, follow me up, follow me up to Limerick Town."”
“Everyone wants to be an overcomer, but nobody wants anything to overcome.”
“Let a disciple live as Christ lived, and he will easily believe in living again as Christ does.”

Source : William Mountford (1858). “Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...”, p.394
“So many people are diverted to doing what people want photographed - fashion models, buildings, mountains - they get to thinking those photographs are good.”

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