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“If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else.”
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“Oh that's what he left? Let his mama pick it up. Might back up on it, VROOM VROOM wit the pick-up truck.”
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“When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene of a crime.”
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“And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.”
Source : William Bradford (1952). “Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647”, p.62, Rutgers University Press
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“Suddenly I had a flash of insight: I am a monster, I realized, a monster that wants to stalk through the woods, free and alone, and cannot even bear so much as the touch of a branch on its skin.”
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“So we, Democrats, have a responsibility there, every one of us, both to try to treat the Republicans with respect and as human beings to try to work with them on every issue we can, and then if those cannons are fired at us, we've got to stand up and fight back. If you lay down and you look like a deer caught in the headlights, then you will confirm the assault. And so we have to fight back.”
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“My favourite painting is often the one or the collection that I am currently working on. This is probably due to the fact that I don't yet know where it will take me.”
Source : "The Conceptual Artist". Inside Switzerland magazine, Summer 2006.
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“I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.”
Source : "Willem Dafoe: 'You do your best work when you're scared'". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2012. 
