"I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture."

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Danny Boyle

#Art Quotes #People Quotes #Culture Quotes

“Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.”
“The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.”
“The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the saying goes, falling for the swindle; if it guarantees them even the most fleeting gratification they desire a deception which is nonetheless transparent to them. They force their eyes shut and voice approval, in a kind of self-loathing, for what is meted out to them, knowing fully the purpose for which it is manufactured. Without admitting it they sense that their lives would be completely intolerable as soon as they no longer clung to satisfactions which are none at all.”
“Show me what you can do; don't tell me what you can do.”
“It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded.”
“Very, very good Pavlov, all your dogs have barked when you rang the bell. Your test was successful.”
“One thing I know is that it is a bad idea to marry someone who had bad parents. If they hated their mother, if they were hated by their mother or father, your marriage will pay for it in ways both obvious and subtle. When the chips are down, when someone is sick or loses their job or gets scared, the old patterns will kick in and he will treat you the way he treated his mother or the way she treated him.”
“Dr. Birdsell, my dramatic coach in school, always said that I was the most melancholy Dane that he had ever directed.”

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