"The one thing I've discovered about social media is that people love answering questions. In fact, it sometimes feels like at any given moment, millions of people are online who have been waiting for exactly the question you fire off."

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Source : "Double-You Double-You One" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. June 2, 201.

Susan Orlean

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“There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a living thing that was as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace it's audience one moment, but then could explode with its stormy tempers, flinging people around, wanting them out, attacking coastlines, breaking down islands.”
“I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 14, 2014.
“This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting”
“When you're doing a show like 'The Book of Mormon,' you're completely spent by the time the show is over.”
“So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.”

Source : "What does randomness look like?" by Aatish Bhatia, www.wired.com. December 21, 2012.
“Guard the portals of your mind.”
“If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''”
“1977 was also, of course, the year that Derek Jarman made his iconoclastic film Jubilee, which was so much part of the punk movement.”

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