"Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm, a brand of paper, but most often a writing instrument. Am I writing well? Thank my pen. Am I writing badly? Don't blame me blame my pen. By such displacements does the fearful imagination defend itself."

-- Anne Fadiman

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“Fashion is a mirror of the era in which we live. Why should the magazine be disconnected from reality? It's not like in the past.”

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“It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy.”
“Quiet IS the new loud.”

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“When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!”
“Bad movies are when people go, 'oh, I wasted $10 bucks and 2 hours and I don't even want to go back again.'”
“I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.”
“There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary.”
“Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking themselves to what extent they are cowards. But the tests they set themselves - there is a dead body, can you bear to look at it? - are nothing in comparison with the tests that are sprung on them. It is not the obvious tests that matter (do you go to pieces in a mortar attack?) but the unexpected ones (here is a man on the run, seeking your help - can you face him honestly?).”

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