"Other thing about [Field Museum of Natural History] which inspired was that in a group of pots you wouldn't see a single example of this kind of pot. You would perhaps see a case with 20 different examples. So you realize that these pots could be repeated again and again, and each time there would be minor variations in them."

-- Warren MacKenzie

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“Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Smallville' was my first love and it is always close to my heart.”
“Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the smell of onion or quince. Auden has a line: "Ports have names they call the sea." Just so will literature describe life familiarly, regionally, in terms life is accustomed to use -- high or low matters not. Literature cannot by this impulse betray the grandeur of its subject -- there is only one subject: What it feels like to be alive. Nothing is irrelevant. Nothing is typical.”

Source : Richard Rodriguez (2003). “Brown: The Last Discovery of America”, p.17, Penguin
“It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.”

Source : "Wellspring: 365 Meditations to Refresh Your Soul". Book by Karen Moore (p. 263), October 1, 2011.
“Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Our intention is to develop more subtlety in contemporary electronic sounds. We don't like nostalgic projects. We have disparate interests and many philosophical concerns. In the past 10 years, I have realized music in the classical tradition - I have composed for strings, brass, and electronic, and alp-horn!”
“Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.”

Source : Sherman Alexie (2016). “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, p.127, Random House
“Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp.”

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