"The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs."

-- Malcolm De Chazal

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“We're living in a world that says that if you engage in mass fraud, you'll be rewarded, but if you go down the street and steal an orange juice, you get arrested.”
“I truly value the cinema experience, the tribal gathering in the dark to watch something larger than life. I like to sit in the first row with no heads in front of mine, and become one with the screen. I always stay for the complete credits so I can linger in the film's story just a little longer.”
“I live part-time in a cabin in Colorado up in the mountains and part-time on a ranch in central Texas - but do I really know how to go brand a cow, or do I really know how to go rappelling down a cliff? No. I do the recreational, half-assed version of all these manly activities and then try to keep that kind of Zen masculinity, like, "I'm a man of nature."”
“I remember going to the theatre when I was little and the lights going down and just getting really scared about what was going to happen up there.”

Source : "Paul Dano: there's light at the end of his journeys into darkness". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2014.
“I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done. Now, I have to budget everything. I have to take on the role not just as a designer but a business. But Im a glass half-full kind of guy.”
“There's no friends like the old friends.”

Source : James Joyce (1967). “Dubliners”, p.14, Lulu.com
“He who will not risk cannot win.”
“A skyscraper is a machine that makes the land pay.”

Source : Sharon Irish, Cass Gilbert (1999). “Cass Gilbert, architect: modern traditionalist”, The Monacelli Press

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