"The Beatles never sounded intimidated by their idols. They never interpreted old rock; they simply played it as well and as joyfully as they knew how. On 'Rock 'n' Roll,' John Lennon does nothing but interpret old rock."

-- Jon Landau

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“My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought! My sin, not in part but the whole, Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more, Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!”
“Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's performances so troubled the onlookers that they feared their ghosts. An awesome compliment. Those players moved the audience not such that they were admitted to a school, or received a complimentary review, but such that the audience feared for their soul. Now that seems to me something to aim for.”
“Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was Romeo & Juliet? How long were they together? A few days.”
“He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.”
“Nature needs no help, just no interference.”
“He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form.”
“I should hate to think that the Senate was as tired of me at the beginning of my service as I am of the Senate at the end.”
“It is partly the absence of recorded history which sends women now to the lives of women past for the detailed documentation of their daily lives.”

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