"Every effort is made to control information. Secrecy is just one of the toggles on their control board. The mindset is in place, and they've done a lot of hiring over eight years, not just political appointees. And they've done a lot of firing or driving people out who might have countermanded or resisted. So, institutionally, it's not going to be simply a matter of flipping the switch to undo it. You're going have to bring in people dedicated to transparency, and you have to demonstrate that there are rewards for candor."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

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“The type of pop culture that is honestly very moving and powerful to me is [when artists] do their homework. They make it real.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.”
“You see, when you're young and foolish it doesn't matter where you may be, you always think that you'll be happier somewhere else.”

Source : Felix Salten, Richard Cowdrey, Barthold Fles, R. Sudgen Tilley (2014). “Bambi's Children: The Story of a Forest Family”, p.23, Simon and Schuster
“I feel that I'm an essayist and that my best work gets done in that form. I wanted to do a book where the essays could exist on their own terms. A book that was neither a book of essays that were shoehorned into a memoir, nor [one where] the essays had been published elsewhere first, [because] then they would kind of bear the marks of those publications.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Its important for women not to find their confidence in a man. I think you really have to know who you are before you can truly fall in love and give your all, and I don't think a man can define you. You have to own that.”
“A Homeland, A State, A Leader.”
“Where am I and doing what? You might well ask. Freaky chick, you say? You can't imagine. I am priestess of a sandcastle in a land of dust and starlight.”
“Growing up in Michigan was fine...until I realized where I was.”

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