"Does an artist truly need to understand her times in order to create? I'm not sure. We're all sitting in a context. It's a market."

-- Sara Genn

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“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.”
“William Graebner's brilliant analysis of America's struggles over the meaning of Patty Hearst gives us not only new perspectives on the 1970s, on Americans' fundamental understandings of their world in a bicentennial year that offered little to celebrate, but also on the longing for heroism and the desire for belief in free will that Graebner believes structured the rise of Reagan-era conservatism. This is a masterful work of cultural history.”
“I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear it. I can't really describe writing. It's in my head. I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs...A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really. A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.”
“When September 6, 1994, arrives, no one else can become saved. The end has come.”

Source : Harold Camping (1992). “1994?”, Vantage Pr
“Four months filming in a foreign country. You know, it is great because you get to learn all about different cultures. I feel so much more enriched.”
“I also think that employees these days expect less of a separation of work and personal life. That doesn't mean that work tasks should encroach upon our personal time, but it does mean that employees today expect more from the companies for whom they work. Why shouldn't your workplace reflect your values? Why is "giving back" not a part of our jobs? The answer for us is to integrate philanthropy with work.”
“For all those who are interested in the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, esthetic, historical or any other aspects of our dance art... It is high time that our universities had faculties for dance, giving the art its due place in the academic world.”
“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.”

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