"The images of things are not the things in themselves."

-- E. L. Doctorow

“Anybody who has a career is going to have to deal with a rumor in their time, or something that usually isn't true. I have a great team behind me and a family that supports me. I just care too much about my career. I have been working too long to let it slip away for something stupid.”
“Basically, if you shoot your own stuff, you can just pick up a camera and some wireless microphones, grab a couple of LEDs, and you're off and running. And if you don't shoot your own stuff, you can just grab one other person to do camera and you can learn how to do the sound, and you're off and running.”
“Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.”
“Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will find the enemy of the Negro, the coalition of Dixiecrats and reactionary Republicans that seek to dominate the Congress.”
“I don't even sing in the shower.”
“Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.”

Source : FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Feb 17, 2012
“To break our addiction to oil is one of the greatest challenges that our generation will have to master.”
“True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge”

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