"Southern food that appears in contemporary popular culture is so exaggerated that it's hardly recognizable to most Southerners. This enriching of Southern food - fatter, richer, more over the top - is what we typically see on TV, in Hollywood films, and in Southern-style or country-themed chains like Cracker Barrel. Southern food becomes a caricature, like characters and props in a reality TV show."

-- Marcie Cohen Ferris

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“You gotta stick your neck out and put out a record that isn't safe... that's the Green Day way!”
“Love is a really scary thing and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Drink lots of water, get lots of sleep, and take vitamin C!”

Source : "Phoebe Tonkin chats to Georgia May Jagger and Camilla Franks". Interview with Phoebe Tonkin, vogue.com.au. April 12, 2013.
“My work is done; I have nothing left to do but to go to my Father.”
“I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.
“Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING.”

Source : Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated
“Famine and unemployment are the raw material for dictatorships.”

Source : Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece in Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2016.
“I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we condemn its existence utterly and praise those who fought for its abolition - but also to express our deep sorrow that it could ever have happened and rejoice at the better times we live in today”

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