“I think paranoia goes from generation to generation. It's convenient to imagine that there's a few people controlling everything, that way it's manageable and small. But that's not life, life is messy.”
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“I don't want to appear hostile, like I'm hostile to L.A. or that I feel that the people don't appreciate jazz. I don't think it's that. I think it's something more. It's something a little bit more complicated than that.”
“I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.”
“Wyndham's is a beautiful old theatre. The sensation on the stage isn't as different as you might think from the Royal Court.”
“I think I always wanted to be an actor - sounds a bit boring, doesn't it? And I pretended once that I wanted to be a vet because one of the teachers asked me and saying you want to be an actor sounds a little bit silly. And I do still feel a bit silly saying it. You feel a bit fraudulent.”
“Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.”
“Think not that your word and yours alone must be right.”
“One thinking it is right to speak all things, whether the word is fit for speech or unutterable.”
“No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot, why didn't I do that long ago, why has it taken me so long to understand what it means when the Indians honour the insane, step aside for them? Yes, a lunatic asylum--don't you think I may end up there?”
“I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin.”
“The sister's face Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility. She wanted to do right. She'd have to think.”
“Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away / You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.”
“I think I know enough of hate to say that for destruction ice is also great and would suffice.”
“New is a word for fools in towns who think Style upon style in dress and thought at last Must get somewhere.”
“Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.”
“Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life.”
“Many receive a criticism and think it is fine; think they got their money's worth; think well of the teacher for it, and then go on with their work just the same as before. That is the reason much of the wisdom of Plato is still locked up in the pages of Plato.”
“I can think of no greater happiness than to be clear-sighted and know the miracle when it happens. And I can think of no more real life than the adventurous one of living and liking and exclaiming the things of one's own time.”
“Whatever you feel or think your exact state at the exact moment of your brush touching the canvas is in some way registered in that stroke.”
“All is as beautiful as we think it.”