A Quote by Whit Stillman
The dull externals of the screenwriter's working life are well known: We are the people taking up too much table space at cafes.
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It's possible to have too much in life. Too many clothes jade our appreciation of new ones; too much money can out us out of touch with life; too much free time and dull the edge of the soul. We need sometimes to come very near the bone so tha we can taste the marrow of life, rather than its superfluities.
If you're not living on the edge then you're taking up a little too much space.
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I'm happy to be the guy on the subway that people stare at and they just can't quite place it. I don't really like my life intruded upon too much. In a way, it's kind of nice to not be all that well known.
I know unless I'm true to myself I couldn't be happy. Too much emphasis is placed today on externals and too little on character.
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