"Effective fund-raising is based on relationships."

-- Jeffrey Deitch

“It took a lot of courage to take the high road, but I would rather be significant with six million people watching a show with meaning, than everyone watching a show with no meaning.”
“As a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm - this pleased my mother.”
“The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'.”
“Listening is the key to everything good in music.”
“You make choices, as a young man. I knew I wanted to be an actor, so I pursued that, but the desire to compete still stayed with me.”

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“Afterward, I curl around her. We lie in silence until darkness falls, and then, haltingly, she begins to talk...She speaks without need or even room for response, so I simply hold her and stroke her hair. She talks of the pain, grief, and horror of the past four years; of learning to cope with being the wife of a man so violent and unpredictable his touch made her skin crawl and of thinking, until quite recently, that she'd finally managed to do that. And then, finally, of how my appearance had forced her to realize she hadn't learned to cope at all.”
“For the first time in your conscious memory; for the first time in fact, since your were a baby; a single tear, full and warm, rolled down your right cheek and you fell into a very deep and entirely dreamless slumber.”
“If you've got the chops, people these days are more accepting of you.”

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