"Are we all not, when we sit in the cinema, in the position of humans in The Matrix, tied to chairs, immersed in the spectacle run by a machine? However, a more appropriate allegory is that of the viewer himself: beneath the illusion that we "just look" at the perceived objects from a safe distance, freely sliding along them, there is the reality of the innumerable ties that bind us to what we perceive."

-- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek

#Running Quotes #Distance Quotes #Reality Quotes

“I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.”

Source : "Natalie Zea of The Following". Interview with Matt Goulet, www.esquire.com. January 23, 2013.
“Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those who hate us.”
“The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing”

Source : FaceBook post by Susan Howatch from May 12, 2015
“Don't be so fast, you're all you've got.”

Source : Rita Dove (2016). “Collected Poems: 1974-2004”, p.165, W. W. Norton & Company
“If people like what I do, fine. If they don't, fine.”
“I understand the power and the alarm of words - Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes, but those which make coffins break from bearers and on their four oak legs walk right away.”
“I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.”
“You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine.”

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