“Now is now. It can never be a long time ago.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder book Little House in the Big Woods
Little House in the Big Woods (1932), Ch. 13
“I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.”
Encountering Directors interview (1969)
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Roman Polanski (1933) Polish-French film director, producer, writer, actor, and rapist
"Roman Polanski: An Exclusive Interview" by Taylor Montague http://web.archive.org/web/20041121095701/http://www.geocities.com/mishaca/interviews/polanski.html <br class="br">Context: It's already getting more and more difficult to make an ambitious and original film. There are less and less independent producers or independent companies and an increasing number of corporations who are more interested in balance sheets than in artistic achievement. They want to make a killing each time they produce a film. They're only interested in the lowest common denominator because they're trying to reach the widest audience. And you got some kind of entropy. That's the danger; they look more alike, those films. The style is all melting and it all looks the same. Even young directors — for most of them, their only standard of achievement is how well their films do on the first weekend or whatever. It worries me. But then, from time to time, you have a film like The Usual Suspects or.... I'm trying to think of something American with some kind of originality... Pulp Fiction.
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
The Analysis of Mind (1921), Lecture IX: Memory, p. 159
1920s
Context: There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population that "remembered" a wholly unreal past. There is no logically necessary connection between events at different times; therefore nothing that is happening now or will happen in the future can disprove the hypothesis that the world began five minutes ago.
“And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?”
Ward Churchill (1947) Political activist
Discussion at the Seattle Independent Media Center http://www.radio4all.net/index.php?op=program-info&program_id=7592&nav=&, August 10, 2003
Will Durant (1885–1981) American historian, philosopher and writer
Quoted in "Books: The Great Gadfly", Time magazine, 8 October 1965 (review of The Age of Voltaire by Will and Ariel Durant)
“I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
Introduction to Nemesis (1989)
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Context: I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear. I have given up all thought of writing poetically or symbolically or experimentally, or in any of the other modes that might (if I were good enough) get me a Pulitzer prize. I would write merely clearly and in this way establish a warm relationship between myself and my readers, and the professional critics — Well, they can do whatever they wish.
Richard Dawkins book The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Source: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
“The golden time of Long Ago.”
William Winter (1836–1917) American writer
I. H. Bromley, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).