"I've always had trouble with authority."

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"It is interesting to ponder the fact that there is no real difference between what the Western Fascists wanted of literature and what the Bolsheviks want. Let me quote: "The personality of the artist should develop freely and without restraint. One thing, however, we demand: acknowledgement of our creed. Thus spoke one of the big Nazis, Dr. Rosenberg, Minister of Culture in Hitler's Germany. Another quote: "Every artist has the right to create freely; but we, Communists, must guide him according to plan. Thus spoke Lenin. Both of these are textual quotations, and their similitude would have been highly diverting had not the whole thing been so very sad."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Authority, Freedom, Control, Culture, Truth

"It's not lying when you do it to officers!"

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Authority, Humor, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

Authority, Disaster, Power, Morality

"Principal Principal: Where's your late pass, mister?Errant Student: I'm on my way to get one now. PP: But you can't be in the hall without a pass. ES: I know, I'm so upset. That's why I need to hurry, so I can get a pass. Principal Principal pauses with a look on his face like Daffy Duck's when Bugs is pulling a fast one. PP: Well, hurry up, then, and get that pass."

Laurie Halse Anderson, American Author

Authority, Humor, School, Dialogue

"She knew the power of bureaucracy well enough to be aware she had to sit and be admonished until this stranger felt she had expressed sufficient disappointment in a girl she would never have to see again."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

Authority, Bureaucracy, Power, Awareness

"A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once."

Frank Howard Clark, American Writer

Authority, Leading, Right

"Benevolence is often very peremptory."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Authority, Benevolence, Power, Behavior

"Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John."

Alfred Noyes, English Poet

Authority, Christ, Sayings

"Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them - the cost has gone up. The picture may or may not get better, but definitely, it gets more cumbersome."

Don Bluth, American Artist

Authority, May, Now

"No authority is higher than reality."

Peter Nivio Zarlenga, American Author

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"Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills."

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"Matter of fact, the style that people use today, I invented in a way."

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"A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it."

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"Most artists think they're frauds anyway."

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"There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave."

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"Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director."

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"I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me."

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"It's not lying when you do it to officers!"

"To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster."

"She knew the power of bureaucracy well enough to be aware she had to sit and be admonished until this stranger felt she had expressed sufficient disappointment in a girl she would never have to see again."

"A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once."

"Benevolence is often very peremptory."

"Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John."

"Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them - the cost has gone up. The picture may or may not get better, but definitely, it gets more cumbersome."

"No authority is higher than reality."

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"The filmmakers always have a great level of control."

"No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not."

"Everybody's a filmmaker today."

"Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills."

"Matter of fact, the style that people use today, I invented in a way."

"A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it."

"Most artists think they're frauds anyway."

"There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave."

"Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director."

"I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me."