"Albania was a very isolated country, politically, economically, and culturally. Our only connection to the world was through a radio program called Voice of America, and through the Italian television waves, which we caught illegally through primitive, improvised antennas. The only way to escape from reality was reading books."

-- Luljeta Lleshanaku

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“Alfred Hitchcock talked about planning out his movies so meticulously that when he was actually shooting and editing, it was the most boring thing in the world. But drawing comics isn't like shooting a movie. You can shoot a movie in a few days and be done with it, but drawing a comic takes years and years. That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.”
“It is pointless for a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young.”
“When I first went into the active Army, you could tell someone to move a chair across the room. Now you have to tell them why.”
“Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.”
“I do want to make music that people love, but I also want to make music that I love. I know I can't please everyone with anything I do, so I don't think too much about how other people are going to take things.”

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“Women are in this respect more fortunate than men, that most of their employments are of such a nature that they can at the same time be thinking of quite different things.”
“I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.”
“No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes because, unlike them, democracy is perfectible.”

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