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Kevin Roose

"I think the style Plimpton popularized - the dive-in, try-it-yourself journalism - is appealing and useful for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the value of an outsider's view into a little-known or misunderstood subculture. I tried to do the same thing with my book - tap into a pocket of American life that few people have any idea about, and tell the real, unvarnished truth about it in a way that was open-minded and authentic."

-- Kevin Roose

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“You have total freedom. It's like, if you do a solo record, there are no restrictions and you can do whatever you want, good or bad. You can have these passing fancies where you go in to the studio one day and you want to do something like what you did on the way in. That's dangerous. You have to have some sort of focus.”
“Let me be very blunt: the heterosexual transmission of AIDS is, in Africa, a function of truly pathological promiscuity. So this is really a violence issue - not the same violence we deal with in Boston, where teenagers stab and shoot each other, but the violence of African men who are killing themselves, and killing African women and children, with pathological promiscuity.”

Source : "Silence is Death". Interview with Eva Thorne, bostonreview.net. April/May 1999.
“I like to imagine there were more of us in the beginning. Not many, I suppose. But more than there are now.”

Source : "The Bone Season". Book by Samantha Shannon, August 20, 2013.
“I wonâ€™t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I canâ€™t get rid of habits.”
“Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.”
“It's not that I don't want to, it's just that there's no money in it. By that I mean the way the video business works now, the artist and the record label send out a song to a bunch of different directors and say, 'What would you do with this?' Then everyone has to come up with an idea and bid on it. For me, it's like, 'Hey, you want me to do it? Then pay me. I'm not auditioning for you.'”
“Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.”
“If you're too embarrassed and want to hide behind your computer screen, that's what this is for. It's about building confidence and that's what U by Kotex does. Girls owning their bodies and health.”

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