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There's always a slight tension when you sell a book to Hollywood, especially a nonfiction book. The author wants his story told intact; the nonfiction author wants it told accurately.
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There's no point in making films unless you intend to show us something special, otherwise just go out and watch a play.
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There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If the answer is ''Yes'' from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.
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This book fills a much-needed gap.
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This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
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This book is written with the conviction that there are no 'good' or 'bad' people, no matter how offensive or eccentric to society they may seem... You and I didn't design people. God designed people. What I am trying to do is to discover why God included humans in Universe.
Source: Critical Path (1981)― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't read, because she doesn't read English.
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This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
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Till the sun grows cold,
And the stars are old,
And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.Source: Bedouin Song -
To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films.
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To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.
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To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
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To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
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To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare.
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