"In rural areas the majority of the victims of violent crime know their assailants (indeed, are probably married to them); in cities, the killer and the mugger come out of the anonymous dark, their faces unrecognized, their motives obscure."

-- Jonathan Raban

#Dark Quotes #Cities Quotes #Majority Quotes

“Iâ€™ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that â€˜actors are great liars.â€™ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of good actors, the conventional wisdom would be â€˜actors are terrible liars,â€™ because only bad actors lie on the job. The good ones hate fakery and avoid manufactured emotion at all costs. Any script is enough of a lie anyway. (What experience does any actor have with flying a spacecraft? Killing someone?) Whatâ€™s called for, what actors are hired for, is to bring reality to the arbitrary.”
“There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original impulse that can only be described as sacred. Something in the person (dare we call it a soul?) wants to be free, and it seeks its freedom any way it can. ... There is a drive for transcendence that is implicit in even the most sensual of desires.”
“There is no doubt that human survival will continue to depend more and more on human intellect and technology. It is idle to argue whether this is good or bad. The point of no return was passed long ago, before anyone knew it was happening.”
“Learn as much by writing as by reading.”
“The worst thing, I fear, about being no longer young is that one is no longer young.”
“The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects.”
“Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.”

Source : Eric Burns (1995). “The Joy of Books: Confessions of a Lifelong Reader”
“Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be.”

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