"Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing."

-- Matthew Shipp

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“Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac.”
“I'm a movie guy - I can get lost in anything.”

Source : "New Moon Werewolf Chaske Spencer Visits Seventeen!!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 3, 2009.
“I'm not a selfish actor. I believe that it's a team effort. You're not in a scene by yourself.”
“The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic.”

Source : Grady Booch, Robert Maksimchuk, Michael Engle, Jim Conallen, Kelli Houston (2007). “Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications”, p.339, Pearson Education
“If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a kidney disease, I wouldn't have won a world championship.”
“I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.”

Source : "Snow White & The Huntsman director Rupert Sanders is living the fairy tale". Interview with Francesca Babb, www.theguardian.com. June 01, 2012.
“Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.”
“We are in conflict with the world; otherwise, there would be no necessity to put forth tremendous effort to meet the world and its demands.”

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