"The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original design upon an invented ocean."

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Edward Hoagland

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“I think there's been a major shift in grass roots media because of the Internet and because the geeks and nerds rule the world. They are in control in so many ways.”

Source : "Conventions: Another day at the office for celebs" by Suzanne Kelly, www.cnn.com. September 7, 2010.
“If you had asked me moment, as a lawyer, I would have said I would rather have had a male Democrat on the court. Like most lawyers , I love to win. But I was glad to see O'Connor because she made me normal. Just the fact that she was there with a soprano voice and a ruffley collar made my physical presence less weird and less fraught.”
“People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.”
“The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.”
“The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it canâ€™t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is beyond thought.”
“An object should be judged by whether it has a form consistent with its use.”

Source : Bruno Munari (1971). “Design as art”, Penguin Books Ltd
“It was actually the production group that ended up producing the show for us...Every musician, especially in the hip-hop community, you always make these show recaps or vlogs, and essentially what "Touring's Boring" was is, we tried to make our vlogs interesting and almost more like a TV show. That's how we got discovered by TV.”
“The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.”

Source : "Q&A: Riz Ahmed". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2010.

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