"Herzog and Malick both have this very unique naturalist intentionality to their process. It's about creating the mood, creating the focus and having discipline, but not prescribing what the performance was supposed to be. Neither of them are really directing their actors into a performance."

“Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.”

“I guess there have been a few questions about my sexuality, and I’d like to keep quiet any unnecessary rumors about sexuality. While I prefer to keep my personal life private, I hope the fact that I’m gay isn’t the most interesting part of me.”

Source : Winslow Homer, Lloyd Goodrich (1973). “Winslow Homer”

“Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into the curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought, or an event.”

“Joy is in the ears that hear.”

Source : Stephen R. Donaldson (2012). “Power That Preserves”, p.284, Del Rey

“And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been treated or recognized at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure. The same thing occurs in affairs of state; for by recognizing from afar the diseases that are spreading in the state (which is a gift given only to a prudent ruler), they can be cured quickly; but when they are not recognized and are left to grow to the extent that everyone recognizes them, there is no longer any cure.”

“I don't have to try to be perfect because I know that my fans like me for who I am. They like me because I am weird and kind of funky, but still really calm.”

“Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.”

Source : "The Evolution Of Aloe Blacc". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. October 29, 2010.

“Fear and faith have something in common. They both ask us to believe in something we cannot see.”