"The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened."

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Source : Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Painted Word”, p.24, Macmillan

Tom Wolfe

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“You would not let your kids do whatever they want. So the challenge is to create accountability in a non-mechanistic way. You cannot come in with a clipboard and check off boxes and figure out why something has not been done on schedule.”

Source : Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.
“I'm trying not to put myself into anything I'm not 100 percent confident about”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and I will....I have come to peace with myself, my God, and my cause. Blood will flow in the streets, Steve, Good vs Evil. Free men vs. Socialist Wannabe Slaves. Pray it is not your blood, my friend.”
“I don't mind being stereotyped in some way and playing certain kinds of guys, but if I can find something to occasionally get a break from that, that would be nice. And I feel like I manage to.”

Source : Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. August 05, 2009.
“People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.”
“Sometimes my courage fails me and I think I ought to stop working, live in the country and devote myself to gardening. But I am held by a thousand bonds, and I don't know when I shall be able to arrange things otherwise. Nor do I know whether, even by writing scientific books, I could live without the laboratory.”
“Jeans represent democracy in fashion.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You have to be very, very good looking to get ahead in motion pictures.”

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