"In Canada you can still settle things with your fists. If there's a fight in a bar, no one goes to jail."

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Source : "Five Minutes With Jeremy Hotz". Interview with Rick Chand, deadspin.com. May 2, 2007.

Jeremy Hotz

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“The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?”
“I would say the referees have the toughest game to call. I would say that there's a lot of officiating done by announcers, local announcers. Sometimes you should listen to a game from both feeds, and you'd think you were listening to completely different games.”
“The more clear you are about what you want, the more motivated and determined you will be to accomplish it.”
“It took Marvel Comics years to begin to put together any worthwhile superheroines. The first crop was, to a gal, embarrassingly disappointing. They had all the measly powers that fifties and sixties male chauvinism could contrive to bestow on a superwoman.”
“When a vision comes from the thunder beings of the west, it comes with terror like a thunder storm; but when the storm of vision has passed, the world is greenier and happier; for wherever the truth of vision comes upon the world, it is like a rain. The world, you see, is happier after the terror of the storm.”

Source : "Black Elk Speaks : being the life story of a holy man of the Ogalala Sioux" by John Neihardt, 1961.
“I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.”
“I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.”
“Hollywood loves to pat itself on the back and espouse their rhetorically liberal points of view while they continue to be the 1 percent and point the finger at the other guy.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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