"It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it."

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Kenzaburo Oe

#Jobs Quotes #Literature Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“It doesn't matter whether you're black, Hispanic, white. They're all in the same boat.”
“Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.”
“For me, seeing our history told in this light, the ones who did rebel, the ones who did revolt, the revolutionaries, excited me. Seeing this story of the Underground Railroad ... and that is such a proud part of our history that not a lot of us know about, where these brave men and women, they were heroes, really helped tear down the system of slavery just by running.”

Source : "Jurnee Smollett-Bell Gets Deep About Underground, a Slave Narrative That Will Make You Proud to Be Black". Interview with Ronda Racha Penrice, www.theroot.com. March 9, 2016.
“Let me tell you the following words as if I were showing you the rungs of a ladder leading upward and upward: Herzl; the Zionist Congress; the English Uganda proposition; the future world war; the peace conference where with the help of England a free and Jewish Palestine will be created.”
“If things don't go fantastically, you just have to deal with it.”
“Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it.”
“I love being convincing. I love when a gesture is convincing and I love doing research for a picture. If you're telling a story you need a background. Just like a novelist needs background information to make a story interesting, I think an artist needs it for a picture too.”

Source : Source: classic.esquire.com
“I don't pick the roles. Your agent gets a call for you and you go and they all get together, everybody has fun at the reading, and they say, "There's chemistry here." So that's how it happens.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Mickey Rooney Reflects on Night at the Museum!". Interview With Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. April 25, 2007.

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