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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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