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“It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.”
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“When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.”
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“Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.”
Source : "'Indie' director Mike Mills is as happy shooting for Nike as Sonic Youth". Interview with Andrea Hubert, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011. 
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“During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.”
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“What were the relations between the Jews and the secret societies? That is not easy to elucidate, for we lack reliable evidence. Obviously they did not dominate in these associations, as the writers, whom I have just mentioned, pretended; they were not necessarily the soul, the head, the grand master of masonry as Gougenot des Mousseaux affirms. It is certain however that there were Jews in the very cradle of masonry, kabbalist Jews, as some of the rites which have been preserved prove.”
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“It is the deep, salty stickiness of food that intrigues me more than any other quality.”
Source : Nigel Slater (2013). “The Kitchen Diaries”, p.64, HarperCollins UK
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“There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline.”
Source : William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1878). “Literary Essays”
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“I first heard music while in the womb. My mom tells me she played Tubular Bells with the headphones against her stomach all the time. A bit disturbing as I believe that is the theme to The Exorcist. Maybe she thought she was having Satan's baby.”
