#si

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#came #consider #i #just #myself

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#antithesis #between #contest #define #ever

I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#ceased #i #like #long #long time

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#face #keep #man #silent #tyranny

I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#am #any #anybody #because #business

But I feel that I have a responsibility to help the film and I have relations with the studio and with those who put up the money so that I can tell a story that I believe in. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#feel #film #help #i #i believe

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#back #breaks #ceiling #certain #down

I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, who always win in every movie they ever do, simply don't win. I felt that was outrageous for a commercial movie. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#because #beings #brad #brad pitt #capable

Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#driven #films #i #i think #music

Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained. ↗

— David Frum

#conservatism #constrained #country #desperate #economic