"No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be easily concealed in the undergrowth of the jungle, the old tribal authority will rapidly become undermined by the mounting influenece of modern skepticism."

-- Muriel Spark

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“Im not trying to hate on nobody.I love everybody that works towards what I was working towards.Its a hard game,its a hard life.”
“Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic.”

Source : RICHARD HALLIBURTON (1925). “THE ROYAL ROAD TO ROMANCE”
“I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it you feel like it's a collage. You tell the narrative, you tell the story, but you feel like you've created this tapestry. But it also has a shape, a story. So I think there's a middle ground I try to strike . . . away from where everyone else seems ready to go, which is, setup, payoff. You know, He's afraid of water, oh, and at the end he's swimming in water - Oh, my God. I hate that stuff.”

Source : "The Two Hollywoods: The Screenwriters; Shane Black; Harmony Korine". Interview with Harmony Korine, www.nytimes.com. November 16, 1997.
“I'm conservative with my money. I'm the one who's got a family and I can't be playing basketball forever, so when I retire, I want to live on what I've made.”

Source : Source: business.highbeam.com
“Sometimes we have to hit bottom before we figure out how to really enjoy life.”

Source : Michael Palmer (1998). “Miracle Cure”, Bantam
“My mom [has] always been my hero. Watching her experience something like breast cancer was pivotal, I think in my whole family's life and experience. She is one strong lady.”
“In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me”
“It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.”

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