Dwight Macdonald quotes
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“Paul Newman is simple not an actor and possibly not even alive.”
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“Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion”
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“A foundation is a large amount of money completely surrounded by people who want some.”
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“The Anarchists' uncompromising rejection of the State, the subject of Marxian sneers for its "absolutist" and "Utopian" character, makes much better sense in the present era than the Marxist relativist and historical approach. The pacifists also seem to be more realistic than the Marxist both in their understanding of modern war and also in their attempts to do something about it...”
-- Dwight MacdonaldSource : Dwight Macdonald (194?). “Root is man: progressivism vrs. radicalism”
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“By 'socialism' I mean a classless society in which the State has disappeared, production is cooperative, and no man has political or economic power over another. The touchstone would be the extent to which each individual could develop his own talents and personality.”
-- Dwight MacdonaldSource : Dwight Macdonald (1953). “The Root is Man: Two Essays in Politics”
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“Pacifism, to me, is primarily a way of actively struggling against injustice and inhumanity; My kind of pacifism may be called "non-violent resistance".”
-- Dwight MacdonaldSource : "Radical Pacifism: The War Resisters League and Gandhian Nonviolence in America, 1915-1963" by Scott H. Bennett, Syracuse University Press, 2003.
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“One cannot demand that anybody be a hero, though one can hope for it.”
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“Paul Newman is simply not an actor and possibly not even alive; seems to be carved from wood, his movements stiff and jerky as a marionette, his one expression an agonized grimace as of wood trying to smile.”
-- Dwight MacdonaldSource : "On Movies".
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“Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.”
Source : Aaron Copland (1952). “Music and imagination”, Harvard Univ Pr
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“A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.”
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“I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.”
Source : "Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul discuss their cutthroat relationship on 'Breaking Bad'". Interview with Glenn Whipp, articles.latimes.com. June 10, 2010.
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“I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.”
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“It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.”
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“The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.”
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“Remember to keep yourself alive, there is nothing more important than that.”
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