Martin Svoboda Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

„This identify makes me remember about the mistakes I've fabricated in the past… and I've made so many of them."

To Yugao, nearly Obito'southward name engraved in the Memorial Rock

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„For many people, I've ceased to be a human being. I've become an outcome, a bother, an "matter." … And has information technology actually been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics, drowning them every bit witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it?"

— Salman Rushdie British Indian novelist and essayist 1947

Accost at Columbia Academy (1991)
Kontext: For many people, I've ceased to be a human being existence. I've go an issue, a bother, an "affair." … And has it really been and then long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics, drowning them as witches, that yous tin can't recognize religious persecution when you run into it? … What is my single life worth? Despair whispers in my ear: "Not a lot." But I refuse to give in to despair … because … I know that many people do care, and are appalled past the … upside-down logic of the mail-fatwa world, in which a … novelist can be accused of having savaged or "mugged" a whole community, becoming its tormentor (instead of its … victim) and the scapegoat for … its discontents…. (What minority is smaller and weaker than a minority of one?)

„I take no anticipation whatsoever. I've been through this then many times."

— Woody Allen American screenwriter, managing director, histrion, comedian, author, playwright, and musician 1935

September 2007 interview, promoting Cassandra's Dreams http://www.film.com/play/cassandrasdreamwoodyalleninterview/16265462.
Kontext: I have no anticipation whatsoever. I've been through this then many times. And I constitute that one way or the other, your life doesn't change at all. Which is deplorable, in a way. Because the people dearest your film... nothing corking happens. And people hate your film... nothing terrible happens. Many years ago, I would... I would... a film of mine would open up, and it would get great reviews, and I would go downwardly and wait at the picture palace. At that place'd be a line around the block. And when a film is reviled, you open up a movie and people say "Oh, information technology's the stupidest thing, it'south the worst picture." You call back: oh, nobody'south going to ever speak to you once again. Only, information technology doesn't happen. Nobody cares. You lot know, they read it and they say "Oh, they hated your film." You care, at the time. But they don't. Nobody else cares. They're not interested. They've got their own lives, and their own problems, and their own shadows on their lungs, and their x-rays. And, you know, they've got their own stuff they're dealing with.... So, I'one thousand merely never nervous well-nigh it.

„I call up I fabricated essentially a mistake in staying in movies but information technology's a mistake I can't regret because information technology'southward like maxim I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman but I did because I dear her. I would have been more successful if I hadn't been married to her, you know. I would take been more successful if I'd left movies immediately, stayed in the theatre, gone into politics, written, anything. I've wasted a greater part of my life looking for coin and trying to go along, trying to brand my work from this terribly expensive paintbox which is a movie. And I've spent too much free energy on things that have nil to do with making a picture show. I'ts about ii percent picture-making and ninety-eight per centum hustling. It's no way to spend a life."

— Orson Welles American player, director, writer and producer 1915 - 1985

Interview with Leslie Megahey for The Orson Welles Story (1982); transcribed in Mark Estrin's Orson Welles: Interviews. Jackson. Mississippi: Academy Press of Mississippi, 2002, page 209.