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“I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc.”
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“I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.”
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“Style is about surviving, about having been through a lot and making it look easy.”
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“Well, there were several things. One was that the industry itself built in Detroit was abandoning the city - taking factories elsewhere, the corporate headquarters elsewhere.”
Source : "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.
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“I always have a plan, but it’s like the plan for a journey. Once you’re on the road, you change things. If nothing changes, if you end up with something that’s just as you planned it, then you haven’t created art.”
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“Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies.”
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“But it's been funny to try and carry the through line, but I think the main thing is the relationship that the band has because we have spent now all this time together that I think that's sort of what we returning to. And whenever we get to play together, it still sort of returns to that little shitty rehearsal space. So that's good.”
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“Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy.”
Source : "SCIENTIST AT WORK: Leonard Adleman; Hitting the High Spots Of Computer Theory" by Gina Kolata, www.nytimes.com. 1994.