"Comedy is best when it's a reaction to something. When you're talking about a topic, and when your friend says something funny naturally, that kind of points something out and puts it on its side, or whatever, then everybody laughs. Because it's unsuspected."

-- Mark Critch

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“The agenda in sexual activity, whether it's appropriate or not, has to do with lust, affection, passion, love, but the agenda in sexual harassment is not any of that. It is power, control, dominance. The tool is the same on both, but the agenda is completely different. That's what distinguishes the two.”
“My mom had gotten a Super 8 camera to make home movies with, and my brother and me got our hands on it and ran with it.”

Source : "Life is funny. And mundane. Just like in a cartoon by Lev" by Jane Ganahl, www.sfgate.com. November 16, 2004.
“What is music in America? It's this stand-in for political action in a lot of senses. We have no democracy and we have no art culture, and we've long considered politics nebbish-y and hopelessly unsexy. So a lot of what would be considered political activism is channeled into cultural work.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and ultimately, yourselves. Remember this: The only good citizen is the well-educated citizen.”

Source : Homer Hickam (1999). “Rocket Boys”, p.146, Dell
“Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need. It is a world of increasing dissension and conflict in which a significant contribution is the failure of different ethnic, tribal, religious, or social groups to search for, and agree upon, a common space for harmonious co-existence.”

Source : Address at the Leadership and Diversity Conference, Gatineau, Canada, May 19, 2004.
“For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls.”

Source : 'Jubilate Agno' Fragment B, l. 30
“Human beings can't bear silence.It would mean that they would bear themselves.”
“I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more.”

Source : Interview with Dag Rambraut, www.sffworld.com. June 5, 2000.

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