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“My heart is a colored pencil but my brain is an eraser”
Source : Song: Tiny Glowing Screens, Part 2, Album: Cardboard Castles, 2013
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“The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.”
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“I don't feel any kind of a responsibility (other than to myself) to write "weighty" lyrics. In fact I sometimes wish I could learn to write in a simpler form, to be more direct and I'm going to be experimenting with this.”
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“When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.”
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“Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.”
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“If the religious leaders have influence, they will not permit girls and boys to wrestle together, as recently happened in Shiraz.”
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“There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.”
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“I'm really specific in the way that I shoot. I've always had a very good sense of what I need in the editing room. I used to shoot in a way that drew more attention to the camera and I've tried, in each film, to draw less and less attention to the camera. I think when you pay attention to the shots, you're aware of the fact that there's a director.”
Source : "Director Jason Reitman Talks YOUNG ADULT and His LACMA Live Reading Series". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 07, 2011. 
