"As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for."

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Source : "Economist Paul Krugman Is a Hard-Core Science Fiction Fan". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. May 30, 2012.

Paul Krugman

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“When Israelis in the occupied territories now claim that they have to defend themselves, they are defending themselves in the sense that any military occupier has to defend itself against the population they are crushing. You can't defend yourself when you're militarily occupying someone else's land. That's not defense. Call it what you like, it's not defense.”
“My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that particular drama plays out. Which isn't to say that there aren't parents and children in cities or on farms. I just don't know them.”
“There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me, you know and they'll say, 'Well, this is Walter Mosley, the mystery writer.' I don't like that. Because I do many things.”
“The mathematics are the friends of religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity of the imagination, and purge the mind of error and prejudice.”
“But she'd wanted him there and there he was. A lamb ready for slaughter.”
“My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.”
“What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.”

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