"The song is about knowing the end result of every situation you're in, and being able to play it out in your mind and see it before it happens. It's about addiction, really, about knowing how it's all going to end up. In that sense, you're watching a movie of yourself all the time - and then you want out of that movie."

-- Rufus Wainwright

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“I feel real ownership in this show. I feel very invested in it. I care very much about it. I don't feel any more like a hired hand, you know? It's a strange feeling - I feel personally responsible for how the story goes. What happens. What the weaknesses are. And so in a way, some of the changes gave me an opportunity to have a voice in a different way.”
“I like Silver Surfer because he's the most philosophical, always philosophizing about the human race and the human condition and why people are the way they are, why they don't appreciate this wonderful planet they live on... he has a nice moral tone.”
“If you look at the films that I've done generally, you would probably get an idea of what I'm most interested in, and if ever I do something unusual like a science fiction film or an action film or a comedy or something, then that to me feels like a step to the side to do something different.”
“I relate to the feeling that Da Vinci was often plagued by the idea that what he did wasn't good enough, that he was his harshest critic. He'd sometimes destroy what he was working on.”
“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
“If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer.”
“We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.”

Source : Oliver Sacks (2013). “Seeing Voices”, Vintage
“If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.”

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