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“In the middle of life, death comes to take your measurements. The visit is forgotten and life goes on. But the suit is being sewn on the sly.”
Source : Tomas Transtromer (2014). “The Deleted World: Poems”, p.31, Macmillan
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“I love ripped jeans! They are flattering. I'm very petite, so I think they make my butt look lovely.”
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“I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships.”
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“The one thing I will never do is buy a shirt because of its name, especially when it's $600 for that shirt. To me, that's ridiculous. It's just a shirt; it's not worth the money.”
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“One of the first things we found out was that the Warren Commission never pursued a conspiracy investigation.”
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“Black cat or white cat: If it can catch mice, it's a good cat”
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“On the subway today, a man came up to me to start a conversation. He made small talk, a lonely man talking about the weather and other things. I tried to be pleasant and accommodating, but my head began to hurt from his banality. I almost didn't notice it had happened, but I suddenly threw up all over him. He was not pleased, and I couldn't stop laughing.”
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“The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.”
Source : Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January, 2003.