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"Time management is a big part of the director's job."

"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

"The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains."

"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

"Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, she had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which sometimes played old Pashto songs were played, time stretched and contracted depending on his absence or presence."
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"The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth."

"The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess."

"The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it."

"Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man."

"Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man."

"It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption."

"The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."

"The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep."
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