"The real risk is not changing. I have to feel that I'm after something. If I make money, fine. But I'd rather be striving. It's the striving, man, it's that I want."

-- John Coltrane

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“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

Source : Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.1775, e-artnow
“Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.”
“Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.”

Source : Philip K. Dick (1976). “Flow my tears, the policeman said”
“The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.”
“...living is merely the chaos of existence...”
“God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world.”
“It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.”

Source : Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas (1994). “Star Wars: The Screenplay. Return of the Jedi”
“I think people are just shocked to see me walking around. It's weird. When they see you on TV, they don't expect to see you in a store.”

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