"The Stonehenge proposal got a lot of interesting criticism. One of the best - or worst - said something like, "Go home to Las Vegas." I think this project could possibly be realized at a very late part of my career. Right now, I don't have the authority, the budget, the credibility."

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Source : Source: www.believermag.com

Aleksandra Mir

#Home Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Careers Quotes

“The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not.”
“Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it.”
“My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.”
“Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.... We join a mass movement to escape from individual responsibility, or, in the words of an ardent young Nazi, to be free from freedom. It was not sheer hypocrisy when the rank-and-file Nazis declared themselves not guilty of all the enormities they had committed. They considered themselves cheated and maligned when made to shoulder responsibility for obeying orders. Had they not joined the Nazi movement in order to be free from responsibility?”
“In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity.”
“People think it's funny when a dumb person can't do things the same way they can.”

Source : Daniel Keyes (2004). “Algernon, Charlie, and I: A Writer's Journey”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“You hear people say that there's too much CG in movies today, but CG is what allows me to take a green-painted wall in a studio and make it disappear, and then put 100 miles of landscape in. CG, in the right hands, can be a marvelous tool.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.”

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