"the press is too often a distorting mirror, which deforms the people and events it represents, making them seem bigger or smaller than they really are."

-- Marguerite Yourcenar

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“Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.”

Source : John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2011). “Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.118, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Really, the only thing a psychiatrist can do that a good (fishing) guide can't is write prescriptions.”
“By the time I came of age and, indeed, Margaret Thatcher became prime minister, I had seen the entire William Shakespeare canon, which, in those days, you were quite able to do. Now, it's a much harder thing. Mrs. Thatcher was really axing public subsidy for the arts.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.”
“I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time I see it as very informed by that.”

Source : "Julie Mehretu paints chaos with chaos - from Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park". Interview with Jason Farago, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2013.
“You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.”
“Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory for everybody.”
“I think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I'm not necessarily going to leave the United States.”

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