"Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding."

-- Moses Finley

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“Raising children who are hopeful and who have the courage to be vulnerable means stepping back and letting them experience disappointment, deal with conflict, learn how to assert themselves, and have the opportunity to fail. If weâ€™re always following our children into the arena, hushing the critics, and assuring their victory, theyâ€™ll never learn that they have the ability to dare greatly on their own.”
“Circumstances in the world of politics contribute substantially to whether or not you can be successful.”
“The Anglo-American tradition is much more linear than the European tradition. If you think about writers like Borges, Calvino, Perec or Marquez, they're not bound in the same sort of way. They don't come out of the classic 19th-century novel, which is where all the problems start. 19th-century novels are fabulous and we should all read them, but we shouldn't write them.”
“It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.”
“There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would say that, for the most part, quantity certainly does not speak well for quality.”
“You get a script and you love it. You find a director that you trust, and it becomes all about how do I commit to this as fully as possible? And the last thing you can afford to have in your mind is what are other people going to think of this?”

Source : Interview with Dan Deevy, TheCinemaSource.com, January 28, 2008.
“And it would be a spare life he would be certain to lead as a schoolteacher in some urban location. But he had a serenity that came with the choice of the life he wanted to live. And this serenity and certainty I have seen only among those who have the armour of books close by.”
“There are a lot of women out there who are doing crazy things behind closed doors sexual-wise and are afraid to admit it.”

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