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If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#beginning #behind #cakes #career #coming

More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#based #evil #far #good #images

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#being #being funny #disability #funny #get

Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#book #book tour #easier #lot #reporting

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#between #book #life #milk #shelf

We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#even #funny #funny people #get #know

What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#campaigns #haul #long #long haul #making

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#always #better #chinese #chinese food #comes

When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#capitalism #century #clean #comes #family

You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.' ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#every #how #i #know #monday