"Only when I fall do I get up again."

-- Vincent Van Gogh

“My only preference is to have a lot of variety and diversity in the material that I work on.”

Source : Source: movieweb.com
“If you don't know how to hold a board, you're going to look phony. That's was the biggest pressure for me was to have that respect and to look up to that.”
“The crowd neither wants nor seeks knowledge, and the leaders of the crowd, in their own interests, try to strengthen its fear and dislike of everything new and unknown. The slavery in which mankind lives is based upon this fear.”
“The Indian criminal justice system was a market like garbage, Abdul now understood. Innocence and guilt could be bought and sold like a kilo of polyurethane bags.”

Source : Katherine Boo (2012). “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum”, p.94, Portobello Books
“I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.”
“Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation.”

Source : "Book Lovers Fear Dim Future for Notes in the Margins" by Dirk Johnson, www.nytimes.com. February 20, 2011.
“Sometimes it can be bad to have too much family. Everybody gets involved in your problems, giving their opinion, gossiping, and making drama. But when bad things happen, they will be there to support you.”

Source : "Sofia Vergara's Secrets: The Esquire Cover Story" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. March 19, 2012.
“I don't believe that murders can be "solved." I think that this is the big lie of the mystery novel, that you should close the book and feel that the world is back in order and everything's all right. I want the reader to know that the world is not all right, and maybe we ought to do something about it.”

Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

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