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“It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't.”
Source : "Revolver - Guy Ritchie interview" compiled by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.
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“To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.”
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“Let us not... contend about merit , but let us all be intent on forwarding the common enterprize , and equally enjoy any progress we may make towards succeeding in it; and above all, let us acknowledge the guidance of that Great Being, who has put a spirit in man, and whose inspiration giveth him understanding .”
Source : Joseph Priestley (1790). “Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air and Other Branches of Natural Philosophy, Connected with the Subject ...: Being the Former Six Volumes Abridged and Methodized, with Many Additions”, p.43
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“I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.”
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“If you give up freedom to get security, you deserve neither.”
Source : Source: abcnews.go.com
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“I'm moving to a point that I'm fed up with the N.C.A.A. dictation.”
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“The only part that's ever frustrating is just the deadline. If left to my own devices, I'd work for a year on something that doesn't need to be worked on for a year because I enjoy it.”
Source : "Nine Inch Nails' Charlie Clouser makes American Horror Story and Saw sound creepy". Interview With Alex McLevy, www.avclub.com. July 2, 2016.
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“The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the drive for power as a value in itself has become the principal indicator of social approval. And the winning of power has become the measure of social merit.”