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“I enjoy the process of writing collaboration so there's some stuff that already that may happen and then some stuff that I'm initiating that I may write on my own.”
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“I read somewhere that if you translated all the gadgets and technology in our houses to make our lives easier and save time, each of us would have the equivalent of 300 slaves, in Roman times. We have these incredible luxuries, incredible power and privileges, but we seem to be squandering them on little plastic spoons to stir our coffee with, that'll last two seconds in our lives.”
Source : Interview with Nitsuh Abebe, pitchfork.com. November 10, 2008. 
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“They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he added: "Oh,the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else. In my case, that something was the wave.”
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“I do not yet want to form a hypothesis to test, because as soon as you make a hypothesis, you become prejudiced. Your mind slides into a groove, and once it is in that groove, has difficulty noticing anything outside of it. During this time, my sense must be sharp; that is the main thing - to be sharp, yet open.”
Source : "A Year in the Maine Woods". Book by Bernd Heinrich, 1995.
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“I'm really happy I was kicked out of CalArts (for a controversial art piece I made).”
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“Return to the beginning. Enter by form. Clean your dojo. As you have every day, tie on the white belt and empty your cup. Pick up your guitar, tune, then play.”
Source : Philip Toshio Sudo (2013). “Zen Guitar”, p.177, Simon and Schuster
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“One of these days I'm-a make me a book out of you.”
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“I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role.”
