"It's much easier to work with an unknown."

-- Taylor Hackford

“I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.”

Source : "Animating the Unspeakable". Interview with Isabel Ortiz, logger.believermag.com. May 14, 2015.
“Beware of economists who hide assumptions.”
“Welcome to your body.”
“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.”
“The distinction between East and West is that the Western novel is very organized, it's very logical, there's a logical progression, there's a chronological progression, and there's a safety in that. Whereas if you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Rather than protecting music as a sublimely meaningless activity that has managed to escape social signification, I insist on treating it as a medium that participates in social formation by influencing the ways we perceive our feelings, our bodies, our desires, our very subjectivities - even if it does so surreptitiously, without most of us knowning how. It is too important a cultural force to be shrouded by mystified notions of Romantic transcendence.”

Source : "Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology". Book by Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood and Gary C. Thomas, 1994.
“Wonder. Go on and wonder.”
“You received the power, the authority, and the sacred duty to minister the moment you were ordained to the priesthood. President James E. Faust taught, â€œPriesthood is the authority delegated to man to minister in the name of God. â€œThe Aaronic Priesthood holds the keys of the ministering of angels. As you love His children, Heavenly Father will guide you, and angels will assist you. You will be given power to bless lives and rescue souls.”

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