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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

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#answers #could #did #hadn #i

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

— Calvin Trillin

#book #book tour #easier #lot #reporting

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 rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#capitalism #century #clean #comes #family

With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#drive #humor #ideal #reader #subjective

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

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#authoritarian #believe #cynical #form #heart