"One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk, all takes place within the half-time show at a Dallas Cowboys football game. No one has better summed up the American appetite for spectacle, the link between sports and politics, and the absolute madness of George W. Bush's Iraq War."

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Adam Hochschild

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“It is very often asserted that fear is destructive. Yet this is not entirely true; when fear is felt about things that truly threaten security, it is protective. It is very fortunate that humans have an almost unlimited capacity for learning fears; otherwise we would have been eliminated long ago.”
“Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.”
“So much of performing is a mind game.”
“Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.”
“It doesn't bother me one iota that most of my career has been playing people who are not that - well, let's say that people wouldn't aspire to be like them.”

Source : "I'm a decent, jolly fat guy". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2001.
“The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.”
“A universal renunciation of violence requires the commitment of the whole of society. These are not matters of government but matters of State; not only matters for the authoirities, but for society in its entirety, including civilian, military, and religious bodies. The mobilization which is urgently needed to effect the transition within two or three years from a culture of war to a culture of peace demands co-operation from everyone. In order to change, the world needs everyone.”

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