"No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance"

-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

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“If you don't try and force it, a song will find the proper moment to come to life.”
“I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.”

Source : Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 1998.
“Wanting to work is a luxury; having to work is not. If you're an artist, an actor, and you don't have to work, then you do work that you wanna do.”

Source : "Police Academy Week: a chat with actor/memoirist Steve Guttenberg". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2012.
“I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.”
“An odd phrase, "by heart," he would add, as though poems were stored in the bloodstream.”
“I trust the mystery. I trust what comes in silence and what comes in nature where there's no diversion. I think the lack of stimulation allows us to hear and experience a deeper river that's constant, still, vibrant, and real. And the process of deep listening with attention and intention catalyzes and mobilizes exactly what's needed at that time.”
“People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought.”
“Who is all-powerful in the world? Who is most dreadful in the world? The machine. Who is most fair, most wealthy, and all-wise? The machine. What is the earth? A machine. What is the sky? A machine. What is man? A machine. A machine.”

Source : Leonid Andreyev (1911). “King-Hunger: Translated from the Russian by Eugene M. Kayden”

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