"The only real reason for self-referencing is the fun factor. It's fun for the writer, getting little peeks at what old characters might be up to. And it's fun for readers to spot a familiar face, or pick up on a made-up book title or something from an earlier story. I don't know that it does -- or even should -- contribute to the story in hand being any better than it would have been without it."

-- Charles de Lint

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“Joe Walsh is a great guy and and an unbelievable talent, Id like to work with him again someday.”
“On his method for lighting up: "Nothing special, but I do blunts, cigarellos, pipes, bongs, bowls, I'll smoke out of an old Timberland boot if you can rig it up and get some weed some out of it. I'll smoke that. Man, I've been saying that for years, so I might just try to make me a Timberland boot contraption that you can smoke weed out of. I think I'm gonna try it."”
“It doesn't get any easier; you just get faster.”
“It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be an expert connoisseur of music without being able to play a note on any instrument. Of course, music would come to a halt if nobody ever learned to play it. But if everybody grew up thinking that music was synonymous with playing it, think how relatively impoverished many lives would be. Couldn't we learn to think of science in the same way?”
“I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.”
“When you're a guest star, you kinda feel like you have to prove something. Everyone else is on the show and has started establishing relationships. And you're just hoping that they're happy you were cast.”

Source : "Interview: Andrea Gabriel from ‘Lost’". Interview with Emma Loggins, www.fanbolt.com. March 2, 2010.
“I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.”

Source : Beatrix Potter (1982). “Beatrix Potter's Americans: selected letters”
“I don't do drugs. I never have taken any drugs. I don't believe in them.”

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