"I've been a professional athlete, I've directed films, I've run a company with 150 employees, and nothing compares to writing a screenplay. Just the second I think I know what I'm doing, the rug gets pulled out and I have no idea what I'm doing. Because there are so many problems to solve."

-- Stacy Peralta

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“One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.”

Source : "Lenz". Book by Georg Buchner, 1835.
“Love enjoys knowing everything about you; desire needs mystery.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 30, 2014
“My work is a game, a very serious game.”
“Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.”
“It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams. Or that the calf that yielded the veal cutlet on her plate spent its life in a box in which it did not have room to turn around. Wendell Berry, "The Pleasures of Eating," What Are People For?, 1989 Jesus pioneered a relationship ethic based on compassion. Being a disciple means building relationships - with the Creator and with all creation and creatures.”
“So what is a good meditator? The one who meditates.”
“I am a result of what has happened on this planet - how could I find the art to say that? I can't, and yet, I am drawn to it because of the enormity of it. That seems really important.”

Source : Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.
“If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.”

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