“Max Bialystock: How could this happen? I was so careful. I picked the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast. Where did I go right?”
The Producers
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Answering audience questions after a reading of The God Delusion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mmskXXetcg,Randolph-Macon Woman's College,
Posed question: "This is probably going to be the most simplest one for you to answer, but: What if you're wrong?"
“I…regret…what I did. It was wrong. Very wrong. But regret is meaningless.”
Source: The Broken Kingdoms (2011), Chapter 16 “From the Depths to the Heights” (watercolor) (p. 283)
“There is right and there is wrong, I have NEVER been wrong.”
Source: Pink Flamingos and Other Filth: Three Screenplays
“Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.”
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“I see the right, and I approve it too,
Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.”
Translation of Ovid, Metamorphoses, vii. 20 (translated by Tate and Stonestreet, edited by Garth), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue" [veggio ’l meglio, et al peggior m’appiglio], Petrarch, Sonnet ccxxv. canzone xxi. To Laura in Life.
“How come I end up where I started?
How come I end up where I went wrong?”
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Lyrics, In Rainbows (2007)