"How deep is your game?"

-- Walter Dean Myers

“I'm often asked by younger filmmakers, 'Why do I need to look at old movies?' I've made a number of pictures in the last 20 years and the response I have to give them is that I still consider myself a student. The more pictures I've made in 20 years, the more I realize I really don't know. And I'm always looking for something or someone that I could learn from.Â I tell the younger filmmakers, and the young students, that do it like painters used to doâ€”that painters doâ€”study the old masters, enrich your palette, expand the canvas. There's always so much more to learn.”
“I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records.”

Source : "L.A. Reid Set To Announce New Label Position". Interview with Angie Martinez, hiphopdx.com. April 14, 2011.
“Similarly, knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible for me to know the future. Conversely, now that I know the future, I would never act contrary to that future, including telling others what I know: those who know the future don't talk about it. Those who've read the Book of Ages never admit to it.”

Source : Ted Chiang (2010). “Stories of Your Life and Others”, p.137, Knopf
“The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others to do so as well, seeking to free ourselves from constraints imposed by coercive institutions, dogma, irrationality, excessive conformity and lack of initiative and imagination, and numerous other obstacles.”
“I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told.”
“If we take as given that critical infrastructures are vulnerable to a cyber terrorist attack, then the question becomes whether there are actors with the capability and motivation to carry out such an operation.”
“American's greatest deficit is no longer found in the federal budget. It is a moral deficit, and it may be found in a polluted and poisoned culture that has become the great enemy within.”

Source : Pat Buchanan's Presidential announcement speech in Courtyard, New Hampshire, buchanan.org. March 2, 1999.
“We all act as hinges-fortuitous links between other people.”

Source : Penelope Lively (2007). “Moon Tiger”, p.143, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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