“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much other fiction. By contrast, the audience for an obscure novel is largely composed of people who read a lot. That means the least popular books are judged by people who have the highest standards, while the most popular are […]
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“I don’t want to survive. I want to LIVE.”– The Captain, WALL-E
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“Don’t worry about the world ending today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.’– anon
“I was Jewish. There was no doubt in my mind (what would happen). I left in 34. Hilter had taken over in 33. A girl… and a physicist… and Jewish. Well, that’s a combination that had no chance! (laughs) That was clear.” -Hilde Levi, refugee physicist from Nazi Germany (from here)
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“In my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign… of promise, you keep writing anyway.”
“Tarantino, I think, gets a lot of pleasure out of demonstrating over and over again that you can get the 18-45 male audience that Hollywood desires into seats, and you can give them a story about a hyper-competent female hero who kicks ass in every way, and they won’t run screaming out of the theater
“He bested the heroes, killed the defenders, overtook the world. Then he killed the narrator and he was the villain no more.”– Vijayendra Mohanty