"The function of pop music is to be consumed."

-- Pierre Boulez

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“Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy.”
“A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.”
“Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.”
“Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other person, to realize his shortcomings, but only to the extent that it offers to me an occasion for forgiveness and unconditional love, as Jesus proves to me.”
“The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons.”

Source : "Oscar no-shows: 9 Hollywood stars who snubbed the Academy Awards" by Gina Vivinetto, www.today.com. February 21, 2017.
“I can't believe you just did that! Are you crazy?" I gripped the steering wheel tighter. "Why do people keep asking me that?" He turned to stare at me, his eyes worried. "Who else keeps asking you that? Are any of them doctors?”

Source : Janette Rallison (2009). “Just One Wish”, p.106, Penguin
“Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.”
“... the only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder...”

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