"I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was influencing me as much as it was."

-- Lionel Richie

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“Most movies don't have the ability to find an audience. So the movie plays out very quickly in a lot of theaters to get the biggest gross. So that demands that we make things that are hits before they open. So they have to have the elements, they have to be franchises.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter lives, as well as the emotional and financial burdens of poor health.”

Source : "Childhood Obesity: Fighting for the Future Health of America’s Youth" by Richard H. Carmona, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2010.
“We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery . . .”

Source : "Crash". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1973.
“The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound, secular philosophical interpretation. In other words, it becomes a religion acceptable to the contemporary, naturalistic mind only when it ceases to be a religion.”
“Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you.”
“Do you have someone watching her house?â€ (Stephanie) â€œThat kind of surveillance only happens in the movies. Weâ€™re so underbudgeted weâ€™re one step away from holding bake sales to pay for toilet paper. (Morelli)”
“Happiness too is inevitable.”
“In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language - the current crop of American poets necessarily give up on others.”

Source : Stephen Burt (2009). “Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry”, Graywolf Press

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