I don't particularly like L.A.
Walter Becker
Recitation: by Male by Female
I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.
Jodie Foster
TimeFocusSpiritualPeopleMeWay
We now live in the era of fake consensus, or phoney populism, a condition in which galleries and homes are seen to succeed best where they manage feelings of non-difference.
Andrew O'Hagan
LiveBestSucceedFakeFeelingsNow
The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.
Alton Brown
BusinessMusicSchoolMeDoorsKind
Fascinatingly confident, rude people are great.
Steven Moffat
GreatPeopleConfidentRude
Paul Ryan is a solid conservative.
Mike Pompeo
ConservativeSolidPaul RyanPaul
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
Miguel de Cervantes
SuccessImpossibleOrderMustAbsurd
I don't see any division between the comic and the tragic. I feel like I'm writing about serious things, and humour is one of my tools. It's not contrived, just part of my world, part of the way things are to me.
Miriam Toews
MeWritingWorldToolsFeelSerious
If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters.
Loretta Young
SunYouPlaceWantExpectFew
My searing desire to atone for having survived helps me resist the temptations to join the world of lies.
Liu Xiaobo
MeWorldDesireLiesJoinResist
You have to go through a mental and emotional process to recognize who you really are. I finally recognized that I cannot be defined by one country.
Jorge Ramos
ProcessYouCountryGoEmotional
Yes, I've often been threatened by hunters, by horsemeat butchers, and seal murderers... I am still alive!
Brigitte Bardot
I AmAliveYesBeenThreatenedSeal
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
Plato
FirstProtectorRootTyrantHe
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