"The arts are essenÂtial to any comÂplete national life. The State owes it to itself to susÂtain and encourÂage themâ€¦.Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the revÂerÂence and delight which are their due."

-- Winston Churchill

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“The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral dilemmas he faces are exactly parallel to moral dilemmas that you would face in this world, today, if you were out there fighting crime dressed like a bat.”
“In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.”
“...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate your solipsism: Does it offer any better a home than the delusions you're reaching to shatter?”
“I didn't want to move or act like a rich man. I wanted to dance in a pair of jeans. I wanted to dance like the man in the streets.”
“The secret to freestyling is working on the creation of thought and it being expressed from your cerebral cortex, to the air in your lungs, to your larynx, pharynx, to your tongue to form a word via whatever consonants and vowels you're working with as well as having a sense of style, cadence, and rhythm.”
“A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any tempo, with or without rhythmic nuances, and it will still be great music. That's how music should be written, so that no-one, no matter how philistine, can ruin it.”

Source : Letter to Isaac Glikman, (August 28, 1955) in "Composers on Music" edited by Josiah Fisk and Jeff Nichols, (p. 364), 1997.
“I think the job of a good journalist, especially in Washington, is to create discomfort, and I think for a certain class of people, and for whom life is quite comfortable, I've created discomfort. So I take that as a badge of honor.”
“I think my style revolves around the philosophy that less is more, that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. That goes for my taste in design and in clothes, and even affects the way I approach music. I'm all about keeping things simple, and minimal, but being able to convey something powerful through that approach.”

Source : "The Recognitions". Book by William Gaddis, "Anselm", p. 457, 1955.

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