"I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences."

-- Zhang Yimou

#Taste Quotes #Audience Quotes #Western Quotes

“Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding.”
“And speaking of females, if I call you by one's name while my fangs are plunged deep in your neck, just run with it.”

Source : Kresley Cole (2011). “Dreams of a Dark Warrior”, p.337, Simon and Schuster
“The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general atmosphere of leisured cosiness.”
“If we don't empower women, we don't allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.”
“What is learned in high school, or for that matter anywhere at all, depends far less on what is taught than on what one actually experiences in the place.”

Source : Edgar Z. Friedenberg (1965). “Coming of Age in America”
“[The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins. Having rolled back the landmark economic reforms of the sixties (the war on poverty) and those of the thirties (labor law, agricultural price supports, banking regulation), its leaders now turn their guns on the accomplishments of the earliest years of progressivism (Woodrow Wilson's estate tax; Theodore Roosevelt's anti-trust measures). With a little more effort, the backlash may well repeal the entire twentieth century.”

Source : "What's the Matter with Kansas?". Book by Thomas Frank, 2004.
“This is servitude, To serve the unwise.”
“Art that I like the most is born out of free association. I try to let my mind open up and see what comes out.”

Source : Source: sojo.net

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