"I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I've been at it pretty much 50 years, and I'm now beginning to learn how to do the job well."

-- Harlan Ellison

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“As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.”
“I don't banter with the audience, cause I don't have anything to say to them, and I'm not feeling any sense of ease or camaraderie when I'm on stage.”

Source : "Destroyer". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.
“The photographer Ruth Bernhard used to tell me that this is like asking somebody how they evolved their signature. It is not something I've ever worked on consciously. I think style is just the end result of personal experience. It would be problematic for me to photograph in another style. I'm drawn to places and subject matter that have personal connections for me and I photograph in a way that seems right. Where does it all come from, who knows?”
“If you had to work in the environment of Washington, D.C., as I do, and watch those men who are so imprisoned and so confined by their eighteenth-century thought patterns, you would know that if anybody is going to be liberated, it's men who must be liberated in this country.”
“I think when you go through something that changes you, it is profound in a way and if somebody is helping you, it brings you closer together.”
“Art is one of the few places where you can put it in a constructive way where it won't burn you up inside or hurt anyone.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I have a rule that I won't Google my own name.”

Source : "Topher Grace’s ‘Star Wars’ Edits Explained: Actor Discusses Editing Three Prequels Into One Film". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2012.
“The Olympics is not a race I want to watch on television and think 'I wonder what I could have done if I was there?”

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