"T'was Spring, t'was Summer, all was gay Now Autumn bears a cloud brow The flowers of Spring are swept way And Summer fruits desert the bough"

-- Thomas Gray

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“A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the costumes and make-up, the actors' reading of a line or emphasis of a word, the choice of lens and the pace of the cutting - these are all part of the translation.”
“Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done”
“At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.”
“Man... is an inextricable tangle of culture and biology. And not being simple, he is not simply good; he has... a kind of hell within him from which rise everlastingly the impulses which threaten his civilization. He has the faculty of imagining for himself more in the way of pleasure and satisfaction than he can possibly achieve. Everything that he gains he pays for in more than equal coin; compromise and the compounding with defeat constitute his best way of getting through the world. His best qualities are the result of a struggle whose outcome is tragic. Yet he is a creature of love...”
“Well, we're all going to die, so mortality is a part of writing and life.”
“You should do what you want, but I think you should also consider wanting something different.”
“There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.”

Source : Joanna Russ (2007). “The Country You Have Never Seen: Essays and Reviews”
“We eat when we're full, and we hoard all the rest. With our hands on remotes, we say, yes, we're the best.”

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