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“According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.”
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“You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.”
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“You look like Curran. You have that pissy exasperated look on your face.”
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“We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.”
Source : Jon Ronson (2015). “So You've Been Publicly Shamed”, p.136, Pan Macmillan
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“The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.”
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“Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.”
Source : Quoted in Oliver Wendell Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1857 - 1858)
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“Books don't harm kids; they arm them.”
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“Rocky is a poor Italian boy from a poor Italian family, and he appreciates the buck more than almost anybody. He's only got two halfway decent purses so far, and it was like a tiger tasting blood”