"As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks"

-- Clive James

#Wisdom Quotes #Art Quotes #Australia Quotes

“If you have a script that's not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who's not good, never are you going to have a good movie.”
“What do you want to do with me?" she asked. You had an unpleasant tumble." He nodded toward the unfamiliar creatures. "My Ganmede friends and I are nursing you back to health, that's all." By drugging me?" (Molly and Arch)”
“Reading won't have the confidence to be confident”
“Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.”
“The four of us couldn't have made a record with the time left over when we were shooting the show. We were on stage from 7.30 in the morning 'til 7 at night. Later on, when there was a break from filming, and we were sick of doing it the old way.”
“Wrong views about holiness are generally traceable to wrong views about human corruption.”
“All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.”

Source : Stewart Brand (1995). “How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built”, p.311, Penguin
“We pick on retail, I think, because each individual has experience with retail. It is easy to talk about.”

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