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🇺🇸Cormac McCarthy

Literature

1933–2023

"People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there."

"It's not like I let people do things for me, so I guess you can call me a control freak, or you can call me passionate... I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination."

"P.S. Managed to avoid the hoyden Emily Thompkinson, who has purloined my creation and added things of her own. Nefarious Creature!"

"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery."

"I’m much more emotional than Mr. Spock. Spock rarely betrays what he is thinking or feeling. He’s fun to portray. But I hope I won’t explode one of these days."

"Being covered in white paint ,you demonstrate behaviour intended to create a public nuisance,which did in fact cause offence to members of the public ,and created a breach of the peace and public order."

"A person who's a bitch would seem to be mean for no reason. I'm not a mean person. Maybe I'm rude without being aware of it — that's possible."

"The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years."

"The star system has us making pictures with personalities rather than stories, sacrificing everything in order to keep some old bags playing young women."

"First time directors - they may not make good movies all the time but they are always the best directors to work for because they’re always so excited, always so committed to what they’re trying to do."

"As a writer you wait around for inspiration; this book is about what happens when a character taps a writer on the shoulder and calls her into being; it's about the character creating a novelist."

"Roz is in Hollywood, but she's not of it."

🇷🇺Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Literature

1932–2017

"Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?"

"That's what makes his story so impossible, David. Because he's told me the truth."

"I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that."

"I’ve been very fortunate and very lucky in life and I’d urge anyone to follow their hearts and find their true vocation. Life is so much more pleasant when you love going to work."

"We had so little to eat, we were freezing all the time, but the sheer joy of being able to act fed our souls."

"To me, comedies are usually the least funny movies. Movies that are actually a comedy are usually not all that funny. To me Goodfellas and Raging Bull are two of the funniest movies I ever saw."

"One paper says I'm Catholic and the other says I'm Jewish. I guess that's fitting because as a Methodist I'm meant to be undetermined some of the time."

"Nothing can last forever; there is no memory, however intense, that does not fade."

"| Ezra Miller: The Most Misunderstood Kid in America?"

"There would always be a bunch of fucking grousers and nay-sayers being like "that was uncalled for."

"I eat as much as I ever did, I drink more than I should, and my sex life is none of your goddamned business."

"You know films are a great medium to be stuck with. I wouldn't have missed my movie experiences for anything."

"Alanis Obomsawin – femfilm.ca: Canadian Women Film Directors Database"

"Good ideas can go bad because they’re made for the wrong reasons. The mission isn’t the right mission. Even though all the players may be noble players, the mission itself is fundamentally flawed."

"Anytime you travel through life, baggage is apart of the journey. It’s not about not having baggage, it’s about learning to travel lighter and lighter."

"UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie, official homepage at UNHCR.org"

"I'm going to usher in this entire new culture of the youth, obsessed with the future."

"You have to work five or six years in the theatre—in hit shows—to make people sick and tired of you, but this you can accomplish in only a few weeks on television. It's a remarkable medium."

"Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion."

"In addition to actual dramatic training and experience, I'd want as much education as possible."

"I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect."

"All the movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds."

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🇺🇸José Rivera (playwright)

Literature

b. 1955

"I have a natural tendency toward theatricality and poetic language...I've never really written realism…and I wanted to give it a shot."

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