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And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#certain #change #dark #disguise #dress

I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#admit #always #brutality #element #existence

I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse I'm too drawn by my own material. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#better #both #certain #conventions #directors

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#bad habits #break #easier #habits #prevent

Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone. ↗

— Georg Solti

#always #am #any #friendly #friends

The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people. ↗

— Georg Solti

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I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss. ↗

— Georg Solti

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For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#behind #blow #clock #curtains #dawned

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#everything #truth #you