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“You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.”

Source : "Interview: Benjamin Walker and the cast of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson". Interview with Sharon Steel, www.timeout.com. November 5, 2010.
“Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It's beautiful.”

Source : Lynsay Sands (2012). “The Accidental Vampire: An Argeneau Vampire Novel”, p.118, Hachette UK
“Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.”
“Christianity and Islam are concerned with the idea of justice, which can turn into political justice, social justice, economical justice, and so on. Buddhism is not so concerned with the idea of rights. There is more talk of responsibility than of demanding rights.”
“I don't have very much time to surf the net, because it's as though my boss has a tracking device on me. The instant I'm looking at a Chloe sweater on Shopbop, I'll get a call in my office with a PA asking: "Paul wants to know where you are and why you're not in the writers room, and if maybe you're online shopping."”
“But in a game, you have a pocket forming, your vision is better and - at least for me - I just get a better feel for what I'm doing.”
“If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the evolution of musical language, whose progressive development comes about through transgressions of a given era's perceptual habits."”

Source : Jean-Jacques Nattiez (1990). “Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music”, p.99, Princeton University Press
“I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.”

Source : Interview with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2008.

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