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“When I'm aggressive and physically feel pretty good, I'm hard to stop.”
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“Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe... Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them. Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader. Maybe we think we are supposed to like tough books, but are we? Who says? Many writers (and art museums) produce for quite a small subsample of the... public.”
Source : Tyler Cowen (2008). “Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Den tist”, p.41, Penguin
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“California ... is the place that sets the trends and establishes the values for the rest of the country; like a slow ooze, California culture spreads eastward across the land.”
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“I was a big fighter when I was younger. In bars I was ready to explode and fight.”
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“Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.”
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“I would just listen to the complaints about what I do instead of celebrating what I do, and that I'm different and in my own lane. It took a while for me to just ignore the doubts.”
Source : "Ledisi: A Singer's Second Life". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. July 9, 2011. 
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“Writing is?waiting for the word that may not be there until next Tuesday.”
Source : 1987 In the Los Angeles Times,13 Oct.
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“The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.”
