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"A triumphalist corporate capitalism, free at last of the specter of Communism, has mobilized its economic power to relentlessly marginalize all nonmarket values; to subordinate every aspect of American life to corporate "efficiency" and the bottom line; to demonize not only government but the very idea of public service and public goods."
"How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were drunk or when you committed adultery you recognised your own personal fallability of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line. Down with Bohemianism, the sin of Majakowski."
"Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works."
"I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully sung line."
"My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted."
"Somewhere along the line common sense should prevail,."
"It was really fun being in Tara's trailer, working on my lines. Tara is such an amazing actress. She's so good at what she does. I learned a lot from watching her."
"Success always has a price; success, with integrity, is the real bottom line."
"I believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time someone helped the homely?"
"So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die." "Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. "What's this switch?" he cried. "What? Where?" cried Arthur, twisting round. "No, I was only fooling," said Ford, "we are going to die after all."
"Civil War was recorded by the original line-up"
"I can't stand VPL, visible panty line. So I'm wondering how many other people out there are wearing thongs."
"There's a lot that I watch over and over. But I have to say, because of my line of work as a horror-movie hostess, I've probably seen Night Of The Living Dead more than any movie. I've probably seen it more than George A. Romero."
"It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me."
"My mother is the kind of woman you don't want to be in line behind at the supermarket. She has coupons for coupons."
"Even the most humane and compassionate of the monotheisms and polytheisms are complicit in this quiet and irrational authoritarianism: they proclaim us, in Fulke Greville's unforgettable line, "Created sick Commanded to be well." And there are totalitarian insinuations to back this up if its appeal should fail."
"I think there's a sense of power women don't get till we're older when we say, 'This is the line, and you're not stepping over it."
"As a young man I was scornful about the supernatural but as I have got older, the sharp line that divided the credible from the incredible has tended to blur; I am aware that the whole world is slightly incredible"
"That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick."
"When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second."
