"I was thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we can just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we got something here."

-- Michael Tolkin

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“Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a start, he has a strong personal rhythm to vary his metrics, he is nothing. Poets mistrust philosophy. They know that once the heads are counted, each owner of a head loses his personal identify and becomes a number in some government scheme: if not as a slave or serf, at least as a party to the device of majority voting, which smothers personal views.”
“Save the Children is often told that its aims are impossible - that there has always been child suffering and there always will be. We know. It's impossible only if we make it so. It's impossible only if we refuse to attempt it.”
“I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts”
“Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.”
“Stay focused when you're playing alive, so you're not distracted by something going on.”

Source : Source: www.rockbook.hu
“Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music.”
“I've been in Los Angeles for a while, and the kind of psychological connection that one makes to people, it just doesn't happen out here.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Intelligent men are dangerous.”

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