Precis Quotes
[In] An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture... Sometimes, as with the Spice Girls or the Pet Shop Boys, serious doubts arise as to whether the performers made more than a minimal contribution to the recording, which owes its trademark to subsequent sound engineering, designed precisely to make it unrepeatable.
- Roger Scruton

[I have no doubt that I stand here at the very center of creation. Every fir tree, each of its needles, the movement of wind, all that I perceive and even more that I don't, all resonate with a vital hum. It is the hum of the universe, what the Chinese call the ten thousand things, all of them speaking out, saying precisely nothing. Each is its own center, the exact place where the world begins.] The center is where you are standing, ... and the other center is where I am standing.
- Joseph Campbell

[Having known Sofia for much of his life, Schwartzman had a few insights into how she works on the set.] She's an incredible director... One of her strengths is that she talks to each actor differently and works with them specifically. She is like Steve actually in that she's very precise in what she says and she's a great observer and connector of emotions and truths and memories. We have so much personal history and a well of things to reference that we were blessed for her to be able to come up and say 'It's kind of like that' and I know exactly what she's saying and no one else maybe would even understand it. It was helpful.
- Jason Schwartzman

[Defense and government networks are hardening their security, but for regular users, the best strategy against high-tech crime can be simple.] Our best defenses against these kind of attacks are often of a low tech variety -- that is, keep paper records of your transactions... Even though much of what we have exists only as a series of ones and zeroes somewhere in the information sphere, we do get paper copies and we should hang on to those. The movie 'The Net,' I think, makes a very intriguing point, about this very computer literate protagonist who has few human connections, and this is precisely the reason she's vulnerable to the kind of attack she suffers. It seems to me that if we keep that in mind we'll be well served.
- John Arquilla

[But this is a city whose appeal, as a place to visit and to live, has always had more to do with an extensive, tightly woven fabric of residential neighborhoods than with architectural icons. Tennessee Williams noted precisely that quality in the stage directions for] A Streetcar Named Desire ... is poor but, unlike corresponding sections of other American cities, it has a raffish charm.
- Elysian Fields

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