"I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture."

-- Tom Waits

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“The European powers had been anxious to see the United States become embroiled in a civil war and eventually break into two smaller and weaker nations. That would pave the way for their further colonization of Latin American without fear of the Americans being able to enforce the Monroe Doctrine.”
“I write mostly as a director. That's why my screenplays are very detailed. So I get into the images I see. I like that.”

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“It was the easiest thing in the world for Arya to step up behind him and stab him. â€œIs there gold hidden in the village?â€ she shouted as she drove the blade up through his back. â€œIs there silver? Gems?â€ She stabbed twice more. â€œIs there food? Where is Lord Beric?â€ She was on top of him by then, still stabbing. â€œWhere did he go? How many men were with him? How many knights? How many bowmen? How many, how many, how many, how many, how many, how many? is there gold in the village?”
“The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age.”
“Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.”
“It taught that there are three versions of things: the one I see in my mind, and the one that carries onto the paper, and then what it ultimately becomes.”
“The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.”
“Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.”

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