"The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature."

-- Edward Dahlberg

#Mimicking Quotes #Toady Quotes #Poet Quotes

“I'm not looking to lose anything. I'm looking to continue making movies.”
“We make allowance for necessity.”
“The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty.”
“Be true to yourself. Never compromise.”
“The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.”

Source : "Antigone". Play by Vittorio Alfieri, Act 2, Scene 2, 1801.
“I work from the people that interest me, and that I care about, in rooms that I live in and know. I use the people to invent my pictures, and I can work more freely when they are there.”
“I've never been so on trend in my entire life.”
“Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the "national interest" as a whole is defined and pursued.... America's important historic relationship with Israel has often led foreign policy decision-makers to defer reflexively to Israeli security assessments, and to replicate Israeli tactics, which, as the war in Lebanon last summer demonstrated, can turn out to be counter-productive.”

Source : Interview with in Molly Lanzarotta, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, March 14, 2007.

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