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“I'm not particularly inventive. If you left me in а room and told me to write a novel, I wouldn't be able to do it. But if you gave me two years in a public library around the corner, I could. It all comes from sort of mixing the true and the invented. I'm not a fabulist. I'm more of a reporter.”
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“I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.”
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“I was a musical theatre geek in high school and college.”
Source : "Toks Olagundoye of 'The Neighbors': 23 Things You Don't Know". ABC Interview, abcnews.go.com. September 20, 2013.
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“There are people who literally cannot start a project until the deadline is four hours away, even if it's a big one. And those people have a serious problem. My recommendation is set up mini-deadlines. You might say, 'Okay, here's my deadline after three days for this and there's another deadline for that and then a third deadline.”
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“The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the structure of rhythm.”
Source : Dame Barbara Hepworth (1970). “A Pictorial Autobiography”
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“The worst enslaving trait of all is greed. I rail against the substitution of money for worth. The idea that the endless accumulation of dead money can furnish a meaningful life to sold-out souls is the supreme lie offered by the system of free enterprise.”
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“When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.”
Source : George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.71, Lulu.com
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“What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.”