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“a person who is arrogant is also ignorant!”
Source : Sister Souljah (2009). “Midnight: A Gangster Love Story”, p.267, Simon and Schuster
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“There are so many varieties of films. You've got the jet-lagged films, where you fly to Bulgaria or wherever and get off the plane, and they bring you right to the set, and you start working, even though I don't even know my name, it's been such a long flight. Then there's the alimony films. But after you've been doing this long enough, you've gotten into every kind of situation you can imagine, even to the point where there is basically no script, so you have to kind of do it scene by scene and survive.”
Source : Source: www.avclub.com
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“Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them. Don't analyze yourself. Give the relevant facts and let your readers make their own judgments. Stick to your story. It is not the most important subject in history but it is one about which you are uniquely qualified to speak.”
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“My girlfriend told me that she was seeing another man. I told her to rub her eyes.”
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“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.”
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“I feel like doing basic, casual pieces and then doing really elevated, more unexpected things is becoming more possible. I feel like I do eventually want to be able to address more categories, like active or evening.”
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“A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait.”
Source : Alvin Langdon Coburn, Alison Gernsheim (1978). “Alvin Langdon Coburn, Photographer: An Autobiography with Over 70 Reproductions of His Works”, p.24, Courier Corporation
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“Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too.”
Source : Irving Howe (1995). “A Critic's Notebook”, Harvest Books