"California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build."

-- Nicolas Berggruen

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“Compassion and love give meaning to our activities and makes them constructive.”
“I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.”
“A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.”

Source : "The age of indifference" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2010.
“I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have thematic similarities - but 'Paladin' took me much deeper into the intuitive underground. Always bearing in mind Joseph Campbell's Rule No. 1: When entering a labyrinth, don't forget your ball of twine.”
“Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it.”
“Advise persons never to engage in killing.”
“To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting”

Source : Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.369, Macmillan
“Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax, and even escape. So, enough about the virtues of reading. Time to read on.”

Source : Richard Carlson (2000). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff for Teens: Simple Ways to Keep Your Cool in Stressful Times”, Hyperion Books

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