"This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has for twenty-five years been hashing over other people's ideas about realism, naturalism and all that nonsense; for twenty-five years he has been reading and writing about what intelligent people already know and about what stupid people don't want to know--which means that for twenty-five years he's been taking nothing and making nothing out of it. And with it all, what conceit! What pretension!"

-- Anton Chekhov

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“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.”
“My tears cure cancer too, it's just that I laugh at cancer patients.”
“I am sure that, had I grown up with both parents, had I grown up in a safe environment, had I grown up with a feeling of safety rather than danger, I would not be the way I am.”

Source : "I'm 47. Unlike most actresses I don't lie about my age" by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. February 02, 2008.
“Don't settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. We need to live the best that's in us.”
“We went on stage with the Jefferson Airplane, Jim started singing with Grace Slick and hugging her. Then he danced off the stage, went back into the dressing room and passed out cold.”
“I accept full responsibility for what I wrote and apologize to everyone who was offended.”

Source : "Sony Film Executives Apologize for Racially Tinged Emails About Obama". Statement to the Press, www.nytimes.com. December 11, 2014.
“It's always good when you can bring two artists together who are totally different.”
“Why are you all here?" "One of Bantazar's assassins hit you with an exomangler," Lore said. "He's dead." "A lot dead." Wraith snorted and high-fived Lore. "Massive deadness.”

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