"After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector."

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Terry Southern

#Adaptation Quotes #Collectors Quotes

“Diplomacy: lying in state.”

Source : Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant, Addison Mizner (1906). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom...”
“I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.”
“Play for one another, and play the right way. The right way is believing in what's on your chest and not what's on your back.”
“First of all, the majority of us, regardless of what we may say, are capitalists. That is, we practice it, it's what we "do," it's how we live, we are capitalists.”
“It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.”

Source : Thomas McGuane (2013). “Gallatin Canyon”, p.31, Random House
“Our country offers such great opportunities for us all. Unfortunately, too many hard-working citizens go day to day without enough food to eat.”
“There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.”
“I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.”

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