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Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.


Christopher Lasch


#conservatism #contemporary #denial #ideology #ostensibly

Wong Kar Wai is a very intense character, very personable, and I believe in general he does not like and he would not want his actors to show their true looks and their true personality on screen.


Andy Lau


#character #does #general #his #i

When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that.


Ang Lee


#asia #cold #cold war #course #extension

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.


Gottfried Leibniz


#elements #extension #nature #neither #nor

He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the intensity of their talk, the charm that had been lent him by sincerity, the magic of Oniton under darkness and of the whispering river. Helen loved the absolute. Leonard had been ruined absolutely, and had appeared to her as a man apart, isolated from the world. A real man, who cared for adventure and beauty, who desired to live decently and pay his way, who could have travelled more gloriously through life than the Juggernaut car that was crushing him.


E.M. Forster


#intensity #misunderstanding #river #ruination #water

For seven years, I was in this fishbowl with this intensity, with all the stuff that went on with the Mets.


Al Leiter


#intensity #mets #seven #stuff #went

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.


Philip Levine


#i #i can #intensity #poetry #realized

But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.


Philip Levine


#i #intensity #lot #most #poem

My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.


Philip Levine


#get #how #intensely #into #notion

All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.


Barry Levinson


#behaviour #best #comfortable #create #enough