"My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest."

-- Albert Brooks

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“Imperfection is a core dimension of freedom.”
“It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try out 50, 75, or a hundred variations on a single line sometimes. I work on the process of refining low-grade ore. I get maybe a couple of nu ggets of gold out of 50 tons of dirt. It is tough for me. No, I am not inspired.”
“There's a lot of neuroscience now raising the question, 'Is all the intelligence in the human body in the brain?', and they're finding out that, no, it's not like that. The body has intelligence itself, and we're much more of an organic creature in that way.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made. This does not mean that one should say, Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! That is foolish and self-destructive. . . . But don't sit back waiting for the perfect moment. It almost never comes.”
“The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card.”

Source : Dennis M. Ritchie (1978). “Unix Time-Sharing System”
“If a D.C. event doesn't have crab cakes, it's low-rent and you need to flee.”
“My mother was there every day of the production. You know what? My mother and I are so close, she really understands the fact that I am 18 and I am maturing. I guess I am not your average 18 year-old”
“This is a collaborative enterprise," she says. "You have to surround yourself with good people and help them to do what they do well, as opposed to micromanaging.”

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