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Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work. ”
August depresses me a little. I don't even feel like eating. And when I don't eat, that's a sure sign of stagnation. ”
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. ”
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies. ”
I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem like they're well educated and there's something admirable about them. And the Queen... she reminds me of my grandma. ”
As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'. ”
Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment. ”
The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well. ”
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches. ”
I love food. I think arguably the thing I'm best at in life is eating food, which is not the best talent in the world, but it's a talent. ”