Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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Nationality: British Type: Businessman Born: June 1, 1906 Death: March 22, 1979 |
“The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.”
“I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me.”