"The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker."

-- Mary Karr

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“My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I was mainly interested in designing and creating documentaries like fiction, so it was a natural evolution to try and embark on doing a dramatic narrative.”
“One of the big problems in this field is that there's so much mystification that surrounds talk of the Shari'a, whether its saying that Islam is all about peace or whether its people saying that Islam is all about Jihad and all about suicide bombs. People will make statements which don't seem to be backed up by any sort of historical context.”
“We will learn that computers, amazing as they are, still cannot come close to being as effective as human beings. A computer isn't creative on its own because it is programmed to behave in a predictable way. Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience. Computers simply cannot do that.”

Source : The Corporate Board, Vol. 13, p. 30, 1992.
“I've got friends in bands who seem like they're always on tour, even still. It may be in some people's blood. I'm sure some bands do it just to earn a living or for the experience.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Creative people identify promising, exciting, and, most important, accessible routes to progress - and eventually formulate the questions correctly.”

Source : "Mozart, Newton and You?" by Lisa Randall, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.
“In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, â€˜Is it good, friend?â€™ â€˜It is bitter â€” bitter,â€™ he answered, â€˜But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.”

Source : The Black Riders and Other Lines "In the Desert" l. 1 (1895)
“It is not enough to have a song on your lips. You must also have a song in your heart.”
“If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.”

Source : Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”

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