"â€¦Itâ€™s like a spiral: They keep making everything more basic so it will appeal to everyone. And gradually, everyone gets used to everything being basic, so we get less and less varied as people, more simple. So the corps make everything even simpler. And it goes on and on."

-- Matthew Tobin Anderson

#Simple Quotes #People Quotes #Goes On Quotes

“I know what poverty is.”
“I got my first job when I moved to Los Angeles. I worked at a coffee shop for five years and it was one of the best experiences I ever had. It was a bunch of actors covering shifts for each other and becoming great friends.”

Source : "When I Was 17: Katie Leclerc". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. May 26, 2012.
“Some are young people who don't know who they are, what they can be or even want to be. They are afraid, but they don't know of what. They are angry, but they don't know at whom. They are rejected and they don't know why. All they want is to be somebody.”
“Tim Cook has not been afraid to confront the government on issues he considers morally important.”

Source : "How Tim Cook's Stand Over Digital Privacy Could Define Apple's Future". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. February 25, 2016.
“Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time, speculating about the future and dwelling on the past. Zen practice is about appreciating your life in this moment. If you are truly aware of five minutes a day, then you are doing pretty well. We are beset by both the future and the past, and there is no reality apart from the here and now.”
“I'm always reading. And I keep a whole list of stories, often unusual stories. There are a hundred some-odd ideas on that list.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Everything shows me its face, its innermost being, its secret soul, which is more often silent than heard.”
“Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming.”

Source : "Tribeca Interview: Abigail Breslin and Alessandro Nivola in Janie Jones : Rock God Meets Rock Child". Interview with Cynthia Ellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 06, 2017.

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