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The opinion of the public is sacred. The director is a cook who merely offers different dishes to them and has no right to insist they react in a particular way. A film is just a projection of light, completed only when it crosses the gaze of the audience[...] Werner Herzog
Ray Bradbury quote: "He walked toward the corner, thinking little at all about..."
He walked toward the corner, thinking little at all about nothing in particular. Ray Bradbury
Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum Robert M. Pirsig
The best and noblest gifts of humanity cannot be the monopoly of a particular race or country; its scope may not be limited nor may it be regarded as the miser's hoard buried underground. Jawaharlal Nehru
There is much that I could say about the happy and tender incidents in my childhood days, the sense of security which I enjoyed with my parents, my childish affections and carefree, irresponsible existence in a gentle and affectionate ambience. But my interest is reserved for the steps that I took in my life towards self-realization. All the pleasant points of repose, islands of happiness, paradises whose magic was not unknown to me can remain, as far as I am concerned, in the enchanted... Herman Hesse
Get a load of this one... I heard that she actually thought paparazzi was the last name of one particular Italian photographer. Apparently she said something like, 'Who is this Paparazzi guy and why didn't they arrest him years ago after he killed Princess Diana? Emily Giffin
Terry Eagleton quote: "Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning..."
Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking. Terry Eagleton
So it is not an accident that the Nazi lads vent a particular fury against (Einstein). He does truly stand for what they most dislike, the opposite of the blond beast intellectualist, individualist, supernationalist, pacifist, inky, plump... How should they know the glory of the free-ranging intellect and soft objective sympathy to whom money and violence, drink and blood and pomp, mean absolutely nothing? John Maynard Keynes
There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. Edgar Allan Poe
They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together. F. Scott Fitzgerald
And if he were really to do good he would have needed in addition to his principles, a heart capable of violating them - a heart which knows only of particular not of general cases and which achieves greatness in little actions. Boris Pasternak
Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted. P. D. James
Doug Coupland quote: "We can no longer create the feeling of an era...of time being..."
We can no longer create the feeling of an era...of time being particular to one spot in time. Doug Coupland
Why is it that if you say you don’t enjoy using an e-reader, or that you aren’t going to get one till the technology is mature, you get reported as “loathing” it? The little Time article itself is fairly accurate about what I’ve said about e-reading, but the title of the series, “Famous Writers Who Loathe E-Books,” reflects or caters to a silly idea: that not being interested in using a particular technology is the same as hating and despising it. Ursula K. Le Guin
Aldous Huxley quote: "he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something..."
he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular Aldous Huxley

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