"Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things."

-- Jean Baudrillard

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“A Corpse or a Ghost- I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present.”

Source : William Frend De Morgan (1906). “Joseph Vance: An Ill-written Autobiography”, H. Frowde
“Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.”
“I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.”

Source : "Down from Cold Mountain". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2003.
“She said that by introducing me to all these great things, Mary Elizabeth gained a â€œsuperior positionâ€ that she wouldnâ€™t need if she was confident about herself. She also said that people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they donâ€™t, nothing will work out the way they want.”
“Abortion is in violation of God-given life.”
“When I was young I was very close to my parents. I never liked staying at my mates' houses, I always wanted to be with my parents and then suddenly at 17 I was like, "Oh well, maybe I should just move half way around the world."”

Source : "Interview – Gregg Sulkin returns in Wizards of Waverly Place". Jewish News Interview, jewishnews.timesofisrael.com. May 22, 2013.
“I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto. One of my closest friends is a composer, Paul Moravec, and a few years ago, Paul and I were at lunch, and I said to him, "you really have to write an opera." So, he says very casually to me, "I'll do it if you write the libretto." Well, little did I know that the within a couple of years we would end up getting a commission from the Santa Fe Opera to write an opera together, "The Letter," which turned out to be the most successful commissioned opera in the history of the Santa Fe Opera.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“……, but as I am a scholar I feel obliged to document what it is like here, most of the time, between the dramatic climaxes. In truth it is like this: You cannot imagine how time can be so still. It hangs. It weighs, and yet there is so little of it. It goes so slowly and it is so scarce. If I was writing this scene it would last a full 15 minutes. I would lie here and you would sit there.”

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