"To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you're starting at a huge disadvantage."

-- Edward Albee

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“[I] can't actually imagine a time in which the need for more diversity would ever cease. Affirmative action has been an issue since segregation practices. The question is not when does it end, but when does it begin [..] When do people of color truly get the benefits to which they are entitled?”

Source : "Holder talks financial crime, affirmative action at Low". Columbia Spectator, February 24, 2012.
“Sometimes I fall into the trap of keeping too much to myself, but I think it's important to preserve certain things, it leaves something to the imagination.”
“She knew herself, how she had slowly, over years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. How she had wrung out her girlhood like death.”
“I believe in God, and that's a personal relationship that I have, but I'm not religious in any way.”

Source : "12 Shocking Reveals from Joe Jonas' Magazine Confessional" by Ashley Lee, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 2, 2013.
“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.”
“Forget about sex. Just play first. Dance, sing, read to each other, breathe together - communicate. Don't count on sex to be the door to intimacy. It's the other way around: first develop intimacy skills. Then make love to enjoy them.”
“Everybody wants to rule the world.”
“Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.”

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