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“Sometimes a collage element I hit upon can inspire the entire drawing.”

Source : Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.
“A boxer is like a lion, the greatest predator on land, but you throw him in the shark tank and he's just another meal.”
“Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.”
“I have new music coming out. I'm working on some television shows. I still do a tremendous amount of concerts. I'm doing my restaurant. I got a club coming in New York. The restaurant is called Doug E. The club is called Fresh.”

Source : "Doug E. Fresh talks 'teach me how to dougie', Pharrell collabo" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. July 7, 2010.
“Because I've been at it so long and very steadily, I have a lot of credits, but I probably have twice as many scripts that were never made for whatever reason.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“My school is attended by near three hundred scholars.”

Source : Joseph Lancaster (1803). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing, a Short Account of Its Present State, Hints Towards Its Improvement, and a Detail of Some Practical Experiments Conducive to that End”, p.53
“I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house.”
“I'm too mature to be angry.”

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