"We can develop a social vaccine (Self-esteem). We can outgrow our past failures - our lives of crime and violence, alcohol and drug abuse, premature pregnancy, child abuse, chronic dependency on welfare, and education failure."

-- John Vasconcellos

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“It seems like bands have stopped making timeless, great rock albums like they did back in the day.”
“It is hard to tell your mother to change her life.”
“There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn't feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.”
“He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.”
“Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images.”

Source : James Ingram Merrill (2004). “Collected Prose”, Knopf
“[My] goal as an artist is to create increasingly complex images with greater and greater clarity of form and intensity of vision.”
“I joke around sometimes and say that the DP [director of photography] is like a shrink for the director, but there's some truth in there.”
“A good problem should be more than a mere exercise; it should be challenging and not too easily solved by the student, and it should require some "dreaming" time.”

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