"The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants."

-- Clay Shirky

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“Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.”
“There are things that are about the entire genre, so it's weird when you look on Wikipedia and people say, "The scene where Angel grabs his fist is from Superman II," and you're thinking, "Ummm, no it's not." Or, "There's a shot from Matrix Revolutions." I'm thinking, "I've only seen Matrix Revolutions once, and will never watch it ever again."”

Source : "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.
“You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.”

Source : Alan Bennett (2008). “The Uncommon Reader”, p.40, Faber & Faber
“I'm not going to be the guy to be 36, 37 years old still trying to hang on and play in the NFL. I'll be 33 in a couple weeks, and there's a million things I want to do with my life before my time is up, which is hopefully 40, 50 years down the line from now at least. So I'd definitely be content.”
“Our public spaces are as profound as we allow them to be,”

Source : Candy Chang (2013). “Before I Die”, p.15, St. Martin's Griffin
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
“The reality is that the NBA was in worse shape in the '70s and early '80s. People have convenient memories.”
“Hollywood is still the cradle of many myths, including the one of eternal youth. I find it odd that the very notion of desire, when applied to a woman over 40, is turned into a pathology or a mockery in a number of films. But Hollywood is not the only place to blame, by far. This is just a rendition, possibly magnified by the power of movies, of a general state of things, social, cultural and political.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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