"I think almost everything important that's ever happened was unimaginable shortly before it happened. Good things and bad things: ending slavery, ending child labor, women voting, etc."

“Stage performance is obviously a much grander sort of depiction. The audience isn't right in your face as close as a camera lens gets.”

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“If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.”

“At 19, I was still figuring out how to throw a fastball.”

Source : "Answer Man: Gio Gonzalez talks getting traded, Cy Young, Strasburg shutdown and the Chevy Geo Big League Stew". Interview with David Brown, sports.yahoo.com. October 6, 2012.

“America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.”

“I have done a great deal of work, as much as a man, but did not get so much pay. I used to work in the field and bind grain, keeping up with the cradler; but men doing no more, got twice as much pay.... We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.”

“Is the noble Lord aware that, at the age of 80, there are very few pleasures left to me, but one of them is passive smoking?”

“It's a sign of this film's greatness that the enormous sadness that accompanies the final leave-taking of the circus interior is a good deal more than the conclusion of an unpretentious evening's entertainments; it's a sublime and awesome coda to the career of one of this century's greatest artists.”

“I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.”