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"A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience."
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"A 'normal person' is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being."
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"I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists."
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"The problem with the 'herd' is that our voice is never 'heard'."
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"Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind."
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"A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience."
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"Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going."
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"Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on your bedsheet and choking on your canned peaches at the nursing home. It was better never to have been born-never to have wanted anything, never to have hoped for anything."
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"People like us are dead to society unless we're pretentious, tell people what they want to hear, take off our clothes, or pretend to be like them."
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"Who was I fooling, telling my heart to quiet its beautiful song so I could march in the parade of conformity? My biggest fool was me."
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"When things don't change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them."
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"A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience."
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"There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing."
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"I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies."
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"Heroism in a bad cause."
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"A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion."
Expression

"The British cinema had been very dull and conformist."
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"I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger."
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"Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets."
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"I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film."
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