"People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth."

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Source : Jan Howard, Laurie Simmons, Baltimore Museum of Art (1997). “Laurie Simmons: the music of regret”

Laurie Simmons

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“...Having no recourse, I feel back on Shakespeare. Leif would recognize it and understand the context properly. With my remaining few seconds of consciousness, I quoted Benedick from Much Ado About Nothing, who spoke these words to his former friend: "you are a Villain: I jest not." and then I collapsed into a pool of my own blood.”
“The truer the facts the better the fiction.”
“You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.”
“Sarcasm is not the rapier of wit its wielders seem to believe it to be, but merely a club: it may, by dint of brute force, occasionally raise bruises, but it never cuts or pierces.”
“Being the new guy's always great because you get to go in fresh with your own choices and you get to bring new life and breath and a new energy into something that's already established.”

Source : "Dustin Clare Interview SPARTACUS: GODS OF THE ARENA". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 23, 2011.
“Business is not a science; it is not susceptible to experiments that can be controlled and replicated. Everything in business is too unpredictable for that - every business, employee, product, market is different and keeps changing.”
“Men can never understand the fear of everlasting punishment that fills the souls of women and children. The orthodox religion, as drawn from the Bible and expounded by the church, is enough to drive the most imaginative and sensitive natures to despair and death.”
“I have never, ever, EVER met anyone who's regretted following their heart.”

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