#Relevance Quotes

“If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats.... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards.”

“If you would be a leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next.”

“Foreign languages, I think they are important but I don't think it should be required because-actually I think they should be teaching you English and then teaching you how to understand double talk-a politician's double talk-not teaching you how to understand French and Spanish and German, when am I going to Germany? I can't even afford to pay my rent in America, how am I going to Germany?”

“...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?”

“If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.”

“You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous.”

“I have no interest in celebrities. If all the superrich disappeared, the world economy would not even notice. The superrich are irrelevant to the economy.”

“National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being.”

“To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was.”

“In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.”

“True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.”

“To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.”

“Times change so quickly that if you and I don't keep up with the times, we'll find ourselves with an umbrella in our hand, over our head, when the sun is out. Or we'll find ourselves standing in the rain, with the umbrella inside the door.”

“Everybody gon' say something. I'd be worried if they said nothing.”

“It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.”

“Nowadays you can no longer let yourself be indoctrinated - the world is changing so fast! Even what you wanted twenty years ago is no longer relevant today; it's outdated.”

“I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.”

“Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.”

“There are so many parallels in society today [with era of J. Edgar Hoover ] that you can use, whether it's the head of a studio or the head of an organization, a major newspaper, a major factory or company, of people who stay too long, maybe, and overstay their usefulness.”

“it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.”