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[Over breakfast] We discussed the 'novelisation' question. This is where the studio pay someone to novelise my script and sell it as Sense and Sensibility. I've said if this happens I will hang myself. Revolting notion. Beyond revolting. Lindsay [Doran] said that the executive she had discussed it with had said 'as a human being I agree with you -- but ...' I laughed until my porridge was cool enough to swallow. ↗


— Emma Thompson


#marketing #movies #novelization #screenplays #unintentional-humor

No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself ↗


— Plato


#music #wealth #music

Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind. ↗


— Jonathan Edwards


#nature #nature

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it. ↗


— Jean-Paul Sartre


#sartre #nature

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the haughtiest and most mendacious minute of "world history"- yet only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die. ↗


— Friedrich Nietzsche


#philosophy #nature

Only when man cornered, potential forced to appear. ↗


— Toba Beta


#cornered #forced #human #natural #potential

Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man. ↗


— Philip K. Dick


#hell #human-nature #instinct #nature

There was a time when I could have slept with his friend Briffa, for instance. Around him the air was always fraught with possibilities. ↗


— Michael Ondaatje


#potential #romantic-potential #sexual-tension #romantic

Where visual artists are concerned, the Baroque sculptor and architect Bernini and the painter and sculptor Picasso were clearly adept at both experiential and instrumental attending, says Tellegen, as is the modern architect Frank Gehry. Choosing a literary example, he says that F. Scott Fitzgerald once admitted to "wrapping one of his romantic flings in cellophane" for later artistic use and notes that "this kind of heartless but honest professionalism is not uncommon among creative people. ↗


— Winifred Gallagher


#attention #creative #experiential #focus #instrumental

Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from your mind the naive but commonplace notion that commercials are about products. They are about products in the same sense that the story of Jonah is about the anatomy of whales. ↗


— Neil Postman


#commercials #media #television #media






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