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The Notion That The Great Artist Requires A Great Patron Has Been Around Since The Pharaohs. That The Born Patron Also Needs An Artist To Patronize Is A Less-studied Phenomenon.

Californians Tend To Be Outspoken. When The Great Migration Began, The More Timid People Must Have Stayed Home, And The Bolder Ones Headed West.

Between The Two Poles Of Whole-truth And Half-truth Is Slung The Chancy Hammock In Which We All Rock.

In A Nation Of Celebrity Worshipers, Amid Followers Of The Cult Of Personality, Individual Modesty Becomes A Heroic Quality. I Find Heroism In The Acceptance Of Anonymity, In The Studied Resistance To The Normal American Tropism Toward The Limelight.

What Troubles Me Is Not That Movie Stars Run For Office, But That They Find It Easy To Get Elected. It Should Be Difficult. It Should Be Difficult For Millionaires, Too.