Michael Tolkin quotes

“I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.”
-- Michael Tolkin

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“Come to think of it, Pasadena's as good a place to die as any.”
-- Michael Tolkin

Source : Michael Tolkin (1995). “The Player ; The Rapture ; The New Age: Three Screenplays”, p.42, Grove Press

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“It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now.”
-- Michael Tolkin

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“I went to Spago once, eight years ago. I had just closed a deal. I thought it would be fun to go to Spago and it wasn't. I got a bad table and nobody paid any attention to me.”
-- Michael Tolkin

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“On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention; it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.”
-- Michael Tolkin

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“One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful writer, he earned a living. And it was a shock for me to find out that it was actually hard to make a living as a writer.”
-- Michael Tolkin

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“I was thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we can just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we got something here.”
-- Michael Tolkin

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“Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.”

“Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.”

Source : "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture". Book by Abbie Hoffman, p. 297, 1980.

“In pain is a new time born.”

“It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.”

“Taking our stand on the immovable rock of Christ's character we risk nothing in saying that the wine of miracle answered to the wine of nature, and was not intoxicating. No counter proof can equal the force of that drawn from His attributes. It is an indecency and a calumny to impute to Christ conduct which requires apology.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1882). “The Evangel: Or The Life of Our Lord in Verse”

“Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.”

“Bronze is the mirror of form, wine of the heart.”

“In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.”

“Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.”

“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”