The escape to an unchallenging fairy tale can be very nice and I'm all for that, but film can also challenge you to confront the realities of our world.


Ezra Miller

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I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
EZRA POUND
Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think ther...
EZRA KOENIG
I do think sometimes there's danger in guest appearance mania. I've seen too many examples t...
EZRA KOENIG
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight
EZRA POUND
Speak against unconscious oppression,
Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,
Spea...
EZRA POUND
I'm good in summer. My birthday is in summer. I don't like it when it's too hot, but, yo...
GEORGE EZRA
Growing up, I listened to a lot of American singer/songwriters, so a lot of Tom Waits, Paul Simon - ...
GEORGE EZRA
The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary ...
EZRA STILES
When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - c...
EZRA POUND
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it
EZRA POUND
Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
EZRA POUND
Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, until they have seen and l...
EZRA POUND
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question
EZRA POUND
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
EZRA POUND
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree
EZRA POUND
If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system b...
EZRA POUND
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery ...
EZRA POUND
Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr.
EZRA POUND
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them ...
EZRA POUND
But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in...
EZRA STILES
But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislatur...
EZRA STILES
Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an import...
EZRA KOENIG
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herdi...
EZRA POUND
One of my big beliefs about Washington is that we highly overstate the power of individuals and high...
EZRA KLEIN
Sometimes you want to dress a certain way... that doesn't always reflect your pedigree.
EZRA KOENIG
My only advice is to try to get the job that's most like the job you want, rather than the one t...
EZRA KLEIN
I go to great pains to find the best yogurt and granola.
EZRA KOENIG
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel
EZRA POUND
No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Under...
EZRA KOENIG
My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.
EZRA KOENIG
I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I oppose...
EZRA CORNELL
When people say the words 'singer-songwriter,' I think they have an image in their heads of ...
GEORGE EZRA
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so call...
EZRA POUND