"I think I learned pretty early that in the end, its only you. To an extent, youre all alone."

-- Lee Atwater

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“You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.”
“If you look at literacy tests in the South, for example, they were absurdly difficult and didn't measure literacy. They were simply measuring whether or not you were black. So at every moment when we've said, hey, we don't want certain people to vote because they are not educated enough, it is often simply become a way of excluding black and brown people.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Undoubtedly the war with Iraq was a tragedy. I think it was also a crime.”
“Remember this, son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.”

Source : Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.91, Hachette UK
“Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.”

Source : "New kid on the block" by Matt Seaton, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2002.
“Other people want a career or success because they think that will help them find their personal life somewhere. I've done it the other way around. What I have is what everybody else is looking for. I know I've got it made. I know I'm a very lucky man. That came first. Then the music and the career just kind of took care of themselves.”

Source : Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2007.
“What's interesting, I think, is that a lot of times, women in powerful positions, when they do get critiqued, when they do get criticized, it often revolves around their appearance, their sexuality, their fertility, et cetera.”

Source : "Poll: Oprah Winfrey Most Admired Woman In America". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 10, 2011.
“it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.”

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