"I was a bit shut down by a lot of the snarkiness and biliousness in some of the poetry blogs. I was tired of aesthetic wars that weren't productive and were becoming mean-spirited. I was probably overworked as well, so I stopped reading and writing for about a year."

-- Simone Muench

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“Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.”
“I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.”
“The use of anthropomorphic terminology forces you linguistically to adopt an operational view. And it makes it practically impossible to argue about programs independently of their being executed.”
“Slowly the foreign air enter me. I feel tingles and sensations. My life becomes a fantasy. Cannabis now rules thee.”
“I'm glad I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.”

Source : "Degas: An Intimate Portrait (Technical Details)". Book by Ambroise Vollard (1927) translated by Randolph T. Weaver (p. 70), 1986.
“I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.”

Source : "'I'm not happy with being No. 4 in the world'". Interview with Ravi Ubha, www.espn.co.uk. March 16, 2010.
“Software unification. So that I no longer care what computing device I pick up, whether it's a laptop or desktop, whether it's one I own or one in a public place, whether it has a small screen or a large screen.”

Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.
“Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women.”

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