"Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism."

-- Richard Dawkins

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“I always like being surprised and sort of caught off guard by other people's work. So it doesn't cause me any anxiety to explore different avenues.”

Source : Interview with Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2013.
“Sometimes you need a major crisis to bring people together.”
“The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice.”
“As Colin Wilson has written, "modern civilisation, with its mechanised rigidity is producing more outsiders than ever before-people who are too intelligent to do some repetitive job, but not intelligent enough to make their own terms with society." Those "intelligent enough" to make their own terms with society are what we will later refer to as artists of life. The outsider views himself as a product of a culture he rejects-the artist views himself as a culture-builder.”

Source : Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.94, Penguin
“Most men call fretting a minor fault, a foible, and not a vice. There is no vice except drunkenness which can so utterly destroy the peace, the happiness of a hoe.”
“I love just about every aspect of the filmmaking except acting. I would never be able to do that, but the rest I really enjoy.”
“Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.”
“There are many excellent guitar players but I have to say Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton are still at the top! There are many imitators but very few genuine articles. There is so much more to playing than a fast blur of notes, like feeling and emotion from the soul. It's like punctuating a sentence and knowing when to lay back and not fill up all the space. Those are the things I tried to teach my son Tim when he began playing.”

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