"Inclusiveness isn't what I want to push back against. The obsession with facts is."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

John D'Agata

#Want Quotes #Facts Quotes #Obsession Quotes

“There is a very special place in the Australian psyche for sport. It is one of the pillars of the Australian way of life. You don't really understand what makes the Australian nation tick unless you understand the great affection Australians have for sport.”
“What I think is so special about "Goosebumps" [movie] is it kind of a badge of courage for kids. They're scared and then they get through it and they're so proud of themselves that they made it through.”
“A hundred thousand men were led By one calf near three centuries dead; They followed still his crooked way And lost a hundred years a day; For thus such reverence is lent To well established precedent.”

Source : Sam Walter Foss (1895). “Whiffs from Wild Meadows”
“There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.”
“Hip-hop was a big part of my life growing up, especially West Coast gangster rap. The reason I was able to listen to it so freely was that my mom couldn't hear any of it, so we would be driving along just blaring Too $hort's horrible misogynistic stuff, and my mom would just turn to us and say, "This is great. I can feel the bass. It sounds so nice." And we're like, "Yeah, mom. We can feel the bass, too."”

Source : Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.
“Like the oxytocin you get as a mom makes you forget everything constantly. And I'm a totally different person after having a kid.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I did some pretty crazy stuff that I never thought I would do, for the sake of a movie, like surfing in eight-foot waves in pitch-black darkness, where I can't see anything. That still haunts me, kind of, in my nightmares, but it was worth it, it was fun.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Leven Rambin Talks Chasing Mavericks Blu-ray" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 01, 2013.
“The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses ...”

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