"I want to be a soul singer."

-- Solomon Burke

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“If the Holocaust that you talk about was real, why don't you allow the subject to be studied? One can freely research any issue, except for this issue, which is sealed. It is a black box, which they do not allow to be opened or reexamined. They do this in order to exploit it.”
“Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.”
“Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.”

Source : Letters to Guy Moyston, August 25, 1924 and July 11, 1925.
“I think that there is just a deep and abiding sexism that's part of your life from the moment that you're conscious as a female.”
“When I sit down to write a book, I do not know where the energy and the words come from. I just sit down, and soon it is flowing through my hand and onto the paper.”
“What we wish, that we readily believe.”
“Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as opposed to pure self-interest. Courage means putting at risk your immediate self-interest for what you believe is right.”

Source : Derrick Bell (2010). “Ethical Ambition”, p.18, A&C Black
“I know I screwed up my 'Godzilla.'”

Source : "'Godzilla': 'I know I screwed up,' says Dean Devlin". Interview with Adam B. Vary, www.ew.com. July 27, 2012.

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