"Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began."

-- Chris Cleave

“I think that the security in the cities is a lot better, but I think that outside the cities the peasants have no security, have no protection of the justice, so that I think is something we have to address.”

Source : "Big Think Interview With Ingrid Betancourt". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 19, 2010.
“Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?”
“There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.”

Source : "The Billboard book of rock arranging". Book by Mark Michaels, May 1, 1990.
“I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense.”
“I am now a mother and a grandmother, and I do not recall that I have ever ignored the claims of the nomadic button and the ceaseless call for sympathy, and the greatest demand on time and patience. My children and their children have been my closest thought, but from the first days of dawning individuality, I have longed unceasingly to make pictures of people... to make likenesses that are biographies, to bring out in each photograph the essential temperament that is called, soul, humanity.”
“My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.”
“Theres a fine line between physical and thug ball, and the Knicks have crossed the line on occasion.”
“Every year you work in Hollywood takes a year off your soul.”

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