"The single biggest act of bravery or madness anyone can do is the act of change."

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Source : Matt Haig (2014). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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“Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan.”

Source : "USA Today Online Chat With Billy Sheehan". www.billysheehan.com. August 21, 2001.
“I'm a minor, stupid talent compared to my brother (Joaquin).”
“Every people, in order to remain healthy and strong, has to have a grasp of its foundation story. Culture is a chrysalis - it is protective, it takes care of you. That's what cultures are for. You cannot rob a people of language, culture, mother, father, the value of their labor - all of that - without doing vast damage to those people.”

Source : Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.
“Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.”
“Being pregnant taught me how to be a better writer. It was a lesson in negative capability and surrendering to necessity. Suddenly, my body instinctually yielded to the needs of this growing being, and I had no choice but to embrace what was happening and all that lay ahead, even if I was afraid and uncertain. So, while being a parent has made writing more challenging, it has also made being a writer more certain. There's no room to procrastinate; there is to time for fear.”
“In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means.”

Source : Loung Ung (2012). “First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers”, Random House
“A vast engine of wonderful delicacy and intricacy, a machine that is like the tools of the Titans put in your hands. This machinery, in its external fabric so massive and so exquisitely adjusted, and in its internal fabric making new categories of thought, new ways of thinking about life.”
“The drums are what drives the whole thing. It's the backbone of the song.”

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