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H L Mencken : The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine a Beethoven making $100, 000 a year? # Cinema # Music # Arts and Artists

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Milton Friedman : " Industrial progress, mechanical improvement, all of the great wonders of the modern era have meant little to the wealthy. The rich in ancient Greece would have benefited hardly at all from modern plumbing — running servants replaced running water. Television and radio — the patricians of Rome could enjoy the leading musicians and actors in their home, could have the leading artists as domestic retainers. Ready-to-wear clothing, supermarkets — all these and many other modern developments would have added little to their life. They would have welcomed the improvements in transportation and in medicine, but for the rest, the great achievements of western capitalism have rebounded primarily to the benefit of the ordinary person. These achievements have made available to the masses conveniences and amenities that were previously the exclusive prerogative of the rich and powerful. " # Cinema # Music # Arts and Artists

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Evelyn Waugh : " It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value the artists and craftsmen of the late eighteenth century. " # Cinema # Music # Arts and Artists

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Gloria Estefan : " The script [for the movie based on the life of singer Connie Francis -- "Who's Sorry Now?"] is finished and is in the hands of several artists to see if somebody wants to film at the start of [2006]. " # Cinema # Music # Arts and Artists

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Ang Lee : " Mainstream films have occupied Hollywood but you can get bored very easily. It can be very repetitive and I think now we want something fresh and something inspiring and different, daring. The mainstream film is very expensive to make and it scares people. It's made for the worldwide audience, you have to please so many people, and the business men start running the movies rather than artists. This is back to the oldest way of Hollywood filmmaking, creating a fantasy, but it has been lost. It seems to take a foreign language film to recoup that ultimate movie viewing experience. " # Cinema # Music # Arts and Artists

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Solomon : " Riches are a stronghold in the imagination of a rich man. " # Cinema # Music # Arts and Artists

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Robert Hughes : " Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of institutional art teaching to produce a fine-arts culture given over to information and not experience. This faithfully echoes the drain of concreteness from modern existence— the reign of mere unassimilated data instead of events that gain meaning by being absorbed into the fabric of imaginative life. " # Cinema # Music # Arts and Artists

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Charles Peguy : " Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty. " # Cinema # Music # Arts and Artists

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Pauline Kael : " The words Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies. This appeal is what attracts us, and ultimately what makes us despair when we begin to understand how seldom movies are more than this. " # Cinema # Music # Arts and Artists

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Ben Hecht : " I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer. " # Cinema # Music # Arts and Artists

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt : " There's this barrier that goes up between the people who make the movies and the people who watch the movies. But the point of art is to have a connection between people. I think it's going to become much more of a dialogue, where everybody will watch everybody's stuff, as opposed to how it is now, where the huge corporations produce everything. I'm looking forward to seeing that. " # Cinema # Music # Arts and Artists

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H L Mencken: " Democracy is the theory that the common people know what They want, and deserve to get it good and hard." # Democracy # Common Sense # Theory

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H L Mencken: " The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it." # Power

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H L Mencken: " The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated." # Money # Happiness # Life and Living

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H L Mencken: " Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good." # Voting # Christians and Christianity # Freedom

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H L Mencken: " Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." # Puritans # Fear # Happiness

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H L Mencken: " Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking." # Conscience

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H L Mencken: " The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom." # Age and Aging # Wisdom # Familiarity

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H L Mencken: " Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it." # Truth # Fiction # Life and Living

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H L Mencken: " A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin." # Cynics and Cynicism # Fear # Flowers

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H L Mencken: " A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know." # Fame

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