"What is the alternative to understanding the complexity of the world?"

-- Atul Gawande

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“And you know, whether it's drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over.”

Source : "Veep's Tony Hale talks about Arrested Development and creeping out James Van Der Beek". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2012.
“The decisions that you make each day can actually catapult you to that next level of achievement.”
“There does exist and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for 20 years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960s, to examine its papers and secret record.”
“She really did like me, the idiot.”

Source : Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.26, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
“The different policies reduce damages by only a modest amount. Indeed, one of the surprises is how little the policies affect the damages from global warming. The reasons are that, because there is so much inertia in the climate system and because the Protocol reduced the global temperature increase by only a fraction of a degree over the next century.”
“More connections to more devices means more vulnerabilities.”
“The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.”
“Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests with my creative interests.”

Source : "Jeffrey Wright: Professional Politician?". Interview with Valerie Gladstone, www.theroot.com. October 11, 2011.

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