"I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way."

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Thom Gunn

#Rhyming Quotes #Way Quotes #Meter Quotes

“Cinema is always a political art, at the end.”
“I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.”
“I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language.”

Source : Richard Peck (1996). “Father Figure”, p.69, Penguin
“There's certain things like scripted dramas that - they're either topical or such water-cooler moments that I think that they'll be consumed within 48 hours. You don't have to consume them at 9:00 at night, but you want to consume them within the first couple of days so that you can talk to your friends about it.”
“As an actor, or as a person, I like to do things that are challenging.”
“Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.”
“To set us on a clear path, it is important to communicate well, at least with ourselves. To know what we want, to know what we mean, and to learn to express ourselves clearly, with as little confusion as possible. If you are confused about yourself, you can expect to be misunderstood by those around you. You have to set your mind straight, and that is a task that no one else can undertake for you.”
“If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.”

Source : Akira Kurosawa, Bert Cardullo (2008). “Akira Kurosawa: Interviews”, p.184, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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