"Other people might have family - three kids or five houses. In my case, that doesn't exist. I'm going to give everything away. Everything has been transferred to charitable trusts. There is no question about that. The question is where, not if."

-- Nicolas Berggruen

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“Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.”

Source : "Bertolucci on Bertolucci". Interview with Rebecca Stokes, www.moma.org. January 3, 2011.
“The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them they might just as well cut bread-and-butter. They take to reading as better men take to drink. They fly through the shires of literature on a motor-car, their sole object being motion. They will tell you how many books they have read in a year. Unless you give at least 45 minutes to careful, fatiguing reflection (it is an awful bore at first) upon what you are reading, your 90 minutes of a night are chiefly wasted.”

Source : Arnold Bennett (2013). “How To Live On Twenty-Four Hours A Day”, p.40, Read Books Ltd
“In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up, from drink you become sober, and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No, the two sovereign remedies for dullness are love or a crusade.”
“Winter is ruthless and sometimes sullen and murderous. The wild winter North has gulped ten thousand summers down nor left a froth of sunshine on its lips.”
“Stand by General Burnside as you have stood by me and all will be well.”
“In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means.”

Source : Loung Ung (2012). “First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers”, Random House
“Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.”
“I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.”

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