"This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world."

-- Richard Powers

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“The true meaning of an artist/actor is opening my heart to the audience and at the same time opening their heart. Through sharing my pain I can possibly heal your pain, there is no other feeling like it, money doesn't compare. This is the true meaning of Art. I will attempt to do it till my dying day.”
“Life disappoints. Everybody knows that. But must it horrify?”
“The only gift is giving to the poor; All else is exchange.”
“Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it's a very safe place.”

Source : "Exitmusic’s Passage Is No Secret". Interview with Amanda Duberman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2012.
“She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
“Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.”

Source : Address to the Nation on the National Education Strategy, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. April 18, 1991.
“I did get upset once, when we were hiking between pitches 15 and 16. Two women and a dog were trying to find their way down through the maze of trails below the First Summit and they asked us: 'Are you on the trail?' I let my indignity show: 'NO, we're on a CLIMB!'”
“We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay for as something that's working against us.”

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