"Artists are prophets. They define the meaning of our lives and point the way."

-- Tony Bouza

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“I box but I have never heard anyone say that I was a boring fighter or that they didn't really like watching my style.”
“At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city at all. The trees out-number the houses. And that's completely typical of Seattle. You can't quite tell: is it a city, is it a suburb, is the forest growing back?”

Source : "In Seattle with Jonathan Raban" by Mike Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2008.
“It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.”
“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.”
“Sometimes you don't prepare much. I mean, when I did 'Lonesome Dove' way back I rode horses day and night for like three or four months, and that got me ready for that.”
“I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.”
“The boys in the office preferred Daft Punk and the song "Robot Rock" as an anthem, speaking excitedly and without irony about wanting to become robots one day. That made me wonder: Why? What's the pull of being a robot?”

Source : Katherine Losse (2012). “The Boy Kings: A Journey Into the Heart of the Social Network”, p.57, Simon and Schuster
“Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.”

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