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"I am astonished at the high prices paid for works by painters who are dead, prices none of them could expect when they were alive. It is a kind of tulip trade, in which living painters suffer but do not profit."
"Obviously, it's some kind of freely commanded modality in the psyche with which we can have a relationship if we will but evolve a control language and a dialogue. And it remains mysterious."
"This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god that functioned in these pre-Hellenic societies."
"When I did my first film I kind of fell into it. I got cast in this movie called 2:37... the director, Murali K Thalluri, basically saw me and said: "I'm going to put you in this movie." And that week I felt like a void had been filled. I was so in my element. I was thrown in at the deep end."
"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."
"There are, indeed, few kinds of composition from which an author, however learned or ingenious, can hope a long continuance of fame."
"Oh, well...up until now it had been a good day, in a horrible kind of way."
"You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you."
"It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum."
"The kind of accidents you prefer to call...accidents."
"When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment."
"Making money isn't something to be ashamed of. There's a feeling now that if you have money you must have got it by some kind of shady dealing or being an MP."
"There are all kinds of darkness, and all kinds of things can be found in them, imprisoned, banished, lost or hidden. Sometimes they escape. Sometimes they simply fall out. Sometimes they just can't take it any more."
"The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting."
"I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life."
"All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity."
"What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism."
"There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by."
"There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists."
"Doubt of any kind cannot be resolved except by action."
