"All these guys picking on smart kids and calling them geeks and dweebs are going to grow up and want to know why they don't do something about the terrible state the world is in. I can tell you why. By the time they grow up, most of the kids who realy could have changed things are wrecked."

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Source : Bruce Coville (2013). “My Teacher Glows in the Dark”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

Bruce Coville

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“Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.”
“Man begets, but land does not beget.”
“Because present procedures by design favor the affluent, the poor are being increasingly marginalized. And because the poor are so marginalized, they can exert little influence on institutional design decisions. We need to break out of this vicious spiral and create momentum in the opposite direction.”

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“Whenever people get to see you, it's a great thing. Once people see an image and see the character, they can get into the music a lot more.”

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“My grandfather killed himself falling off the dike in Ostend while photographing my two cousins. This can happen so easily when looking through a lens: for a split second nothing else exists outside the frame.”
“Nothing fails like success.”
“The reason why we are disenchanted with ourselves is because we entertain in the depths of our psyche a kind of vision-an anticipated vision of what we could be if we would be what we might be.”
“Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.”

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