"Ads and logos are our shared global culture and language, and people are insisting on the right to use that language, to reformulate it in the way that artists and writers always do with cultural material,."

-- Naomi Klein

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“As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.”
“What a lot of folks feel - and some of the other commenters have mentioned this - is that there isn't a very clear way for somebody who's working-class, who is middle-income to really get ahead in 21st century America. That implicates our education system. It also implicates our local and regional economies. And I think that folks will expect Trump to fix a lot of those things. But, of course, it's a really tall order, and it's not going to happen overnight.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Any story worth telling relates to real life in some meaningful way. Scifi allows you to tell meaningful stories without seeming too preachy - it adds a metaphorical layer between the story and the real world. Scifi is dismissed as ungrounded fluff, but it's actually the opposite.”

Source : "Caprica Producer Jane Espenson Redefines Racism in the BSG Universe". AMC interview, www.amc.com.
“It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To take a realistic attitude toward life and death meant that one lapsed into unreality. Into insanity. It was ironic that the only way to keep one's sanity was to ignore that one was in an insane world or to act as if the world were sane.”
“I think we are living in pretty scary times and people are looking for inspiration and are also more open to the spiritual possibilities.”
“If I weren't skateboarding, I'd love to race cars. I like anything that's fast and active.”

Source : Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. October 15, 2007.
“We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.”
“Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.”

Source : Christopher Fry (1997). “The Early Days”

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