"The more money you make, the more the culture already attracts you to serve it, with an aura of glitter and power, to reproduce it in even stronger ways. And you have to resist that so much if any meaningful artistic integrity is to be had."

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“The things we should focus on in any life shouldn't be what we've lost, but what we've gained”

Source : Shelly Crane (2013). “Wide Awake”, p.208, Kiss Me Publications, LLC
“I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia.”
“The theory of evolution by natural selection is an ecological theory-founded on ecological observation by perhaps the greatest of all ecologists. It has been adopted by and brought up by the science of genetics, and ecologists, being modest people, are apt to forget their distinguished parenthood.”
“When one door closes, another one opens.”
“There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.”
“The artful pitcher must take the inevitable peaks and valleys of pitching in stride and never give in to the batters or lose sight of his/her own strengths.”
“Minds think with ideas, not information No amount of data, bandwidth, or processing power can substitute for inspired thought.”
“If you are free, you are not predicatable and you are not controllable.”

Source : "Technical Difficulties: African-American Notes on the State of the Union".

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