"We all want things that are not necessarily essential, but we always choose those actions which we think will best improve the situation from our viewpoint. This means that the ideas that men hold determine their choice of actions. This means that the most important thing in the world is ideas."

-- Percy L. Greaves, Jr.

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“Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.”
“Early on, America took one path and went down the advertising road, and in the UK they founded the BBC and developed a different kind of public broadcasting. There was a point where TV was so beholden to commercial interest that people - civil society - actually rose up and said, "This is ridiculous: we have our soap-selling soap operas, cigarette-sponsored news broadcast; we have our rigged quiz shows - let's put some checks and balances here."”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I am not used to doing naked shoots but when you trust the photographer and the crew, you know it won't be vulgar.”
“I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.”

Source : Interview with Drew Barrymore, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 2003.
“I feel fortunate that there was a place like the CFL where I could hone my skill and become a consistent football player and have a nice career.”
“I'm used to the older-fashioned way of mixing: playing with three decks, always turning and twisting knobs manically.”

Source : Source: www.spin.com
“Making photographs that dealt with the understanding of who I am as a gay man and dealt with the process of accepting that, and also accepting what I'm into sexually, what sexually arouses me. So I was making these images not necessarily knowing what they were about, but just putting it out there - that mode of thinking or consideration of my own desires, and also the much larger conversation around images that deal with ideas of sexuality and how those images are distributed and then accepted or understood by whoever is viewing those images.”
“I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com

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