"While in the city and its suburbs, I fed as if in danger of imminent execution. And I was able to confirm earlier reconnaissance: Vancouver is among the best eating towns in the history of the Winter Games."

-- Sam Sifton

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“The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.”
“Giving requires good sense. [Lat., Rest est ingeniosa dare.]”
“If Jesus is on Tim Curran's side and Occy is Jesus, who gets to win?”
“This nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened ... It ought to to be possible, in short, for every American to enjoy the privileges of being American without regard to his race or his color.”
“And one of the things that makes me happiest and proudest is that the talk radio venue, the whole market has expanded. There are all kinds of people doing it.”
“I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.”
“I never ever took my career seriously.”
“In a normal education everything is designed to suppress spontaneity, but I wanted to develop it.”

Source : Keith Johnstone (1981). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.15, Routledge

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