"Lulled into somnolence by five hundred years of print, literary studies have been slow to wake up to the importance of MSA (media-specific analysis). Literary criticism and theory are shot through with unrecognized assumptions specific to print. Only now, as the new medium of electronic textuality vibrantly asserts its presence, are these assumptions clearly coming into view."

-- N. Katherine Hayles

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“Every time I go out to the mound, I think about where I come from and what I used to have.”
“I am proud to tell Hollywood that I am a Christian. For the first time I am now free to be myself.”
“You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those years later, was still wanting me to be someone I wasn't.”

Source : Barbara Delinsky (2011). “Escape”, p.101, Anchor
“Why add prime numbers? Prime numbers are made to be multiplied, not added.”
“Mistakes are good provided you learn from them, and correct them promptly.”
“Amazingly, my first project at Granta was the Sex issue. Given my own proclivity for the nuances of hedonistic and sexual exploration, partly through art, it was a perfect way to start. I love to interrogate through image - or pose questions through a subversion of said image - and we came up with a visual that caused quite a stir and went on to pick up a Design and Art Direction award.”
“The startups that do well are the ones that are working all the time.”
“I have had a few rough patches in my life, but these last few years have been among the roughest. A few years ago, I left my job as host of the television show Extra. Our parting of ways was completely amicable; they were amazing to me. I had spent over a quarter of my life at that job, and without it, I felt like I had lost my compass. People didn't know how to introduce me anymore, because in L.A., you are your job.”

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