"Vain Art of the Fugue was the only one of my novels to be met with relative public recognition: it was nominated for the Prix MÃ©dicis by Alain Robbe-Grillet. Milan Kundera pocketed the prize instead and the public never clamored to buy it."

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Dumitru Tepeneag

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“I have to apologize with one of my album because I called it Unleash the Dragon but I didn't really unleash - I kind of stayed in the Dru Hill vernacular, and that's why the album was so ballad-heavy.”

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“Why should a financial engineer be paid four, four times... to a hundred times more than the, uh... real engineer? A real engineer build bridges, a financial engineer build, build dreams. And when those dream turn out to be nightmares, other people pay for it.”
“All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment; therefore of change. But their change is that of a tree not of a cloud.”
“There's a small movement of teacher-led schools across the country. These are schools that don't have a traditional principal, teachers come together and actually run the school themselves. That's kind of the most radical way, but I think something that's more doable across the board is just creating career ladders for teachers that allow certain teachers after a certain number of years to inhabit new roles. Roles mentoring their peers, helping train novice teachers to be better at their jobs, roles writing the curriculum, leading on lesson planning.”

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“I danced frightening things. They were frightened of me and therefore thought that I wanted to kill them. I did not want to kill anyone. I loved everyone, but no one loved me, and therefore I became nervous.”

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“More people now work in the arts than the steel, coal and car industries combined.”
“There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.”
“One of the things that has changed my lifeâ€”and this comes from someone who was highly self-critical and a type-A personalityâ€”is meditating. The simple act of making my brain shut off for 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes at night may not seem like much, but what ends up happening, besides creating space in your day, is your awake posture begins to replicate your meditative posture,”

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