"The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it."

-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Friendship Quotes #Men Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“I can't have composite characters. I can't attribute dialogue to someone based simply on my memory and not based on notes taken at the time that the words were spoken.”

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“It is at the cross-roads that skepticism is born, not in a hermitage.”
“How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning.”
“[On her mastectomy:] Fact is, I'm the same car I always was, except now I have a dent in my fender.”
“I make the case in the book that Standard English, that language we all aspire to live and move and have our being within, is actually based on a fiction. It's not anyone's native way of speaking or writing. That's why we have to take classes in it. Language is just really squishy.”

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“Words are good, but there is something better. The best is not to be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be understood and represented by the spirit.”
“I really like the complexity of jazz, the emotional depth; I feel like there's no other music that's really as satisfying as jazz.”

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“I really enjoy my time off. If I'm going to go to work, it has to be something I really believe in, or else it's totally tedious.”

Source : Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. September 15, 2004.

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