“I took two years away from making films to write a novel.” WritingYearsTwoFilmNovelTwo Years Author:Neil Jordan
“I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.” YearsMeanStoriesPoliticalIssuesViolenceGrewGrew UpIrelandPolitical Violence Author:Neil Jordan
“My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end.” LittlesDifferentEndsStoriesFilmBitsMovementNormalLittle BitProgramConceptionTrunks Author:Neil Jordan
“The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.” FirstsJobsOffersUniversityGenuineAcademicWisconsinWisconsin Weather Author:Stephen Cole Kleene
“I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.” IfsKnowsHardPhilosophyAbleBeliefTheoryProveClaimsPhilosophicalHesitationProve It Author:Stephen Cole Kleene
“Most of our failures in understanding one another have less to do with what is heard than with what is intended and what is inferred.” UnderstandingHeard Author:George Armitage Miller
“The mantras, however, are mysterious and each word is profound in meaning. When they are transliterated into Chinese, the original meanings are modified and the long and short vowels are confused. In the end we can get roughly similar sounds but not precisely the same ones. Unless we use Sanskrit, it is hardly possible to differentiate the long and short sounds. The purpose of retaining the source materials, indeed, lies here.” LongEndsUseLyingPurposeSoundMaterialsSourceOriginalsProfoundMysteriousChineseConfusedMantrasDifferentiateRetainingVowelsSanskrit Author:Kukai