"It seems that the Internet is setting the standard for almost everything. I can't imagine having something like punk rock happen where an entire culture is doing one thing. It's not like all the kids in England are discovering the Stooges and the Ramones at the same time. All the kids in England are discovering every band that has ever existed. I can't imagine there being one huge cultural moment like there was in the past. Everything ends up being kind of postmodern."

-- Memory Tapes

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“In theater, there's a lot of discipline involved in doing eight shows a week for a year and a half. It's nice to be able to bring some of that bag of tools with you over to the film world, where you don't have the rehearsal, you don't have an audience. You don't have a month of rehearsal to examine these words, and you meet the guy who's going to play your brother the morning that you shoot the scene. So you need a bag of tools.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I think the environmental movement is the biggest people's movement in the world. Unfortunately, our governments and corporations haven't responded accordingly to protect our planet's natural resources.”
“Women and men communicate differently, often on entirely different planes. But just as men have failed us, we have failed them. It has been one of our great collective female shortcomings to presume that whatever we do not perceive simply isn't there, or that whatever is not communicated in our language is not intelligible speech.”

Source : Norah Vincent (2006). “Self-Made Man: One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man”, p.118, Penguin
“The nature of this flower is to bloom.”

Source : "The Girl God". Book by Alice Walker, 2012.
“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.”
“It's only fashion that has said the pendulum has swung from extreme skepticism about extraterrestrial life to extreme credulity. The truth is somewhere in between.”
“During the winter when the weather is too poor to work outside, I do use drawings and photographs, but I change my work so it is not just a time and place study.”
“My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation.”

Source : "New wonder kid on the block" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2009.

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