"From this, one can make a deduction which is quite certainly the ultimate truth of jigsaw puzzles: despite appearances, puzzling is not a solitary game: every move the puzzler makes, the puzzlemaker has made before; every piece the puzzler picks up, and picks up again, and studies and strokes, every combination he tries, and tries a second time, every blunder and every insight, each hope and each discouragement have all been designed, calculated, and decided by the other."

Source : Georges Perec (2012). “Life: A User's Manual”, p.191, Random House

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“Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.”

Source : "Portrait of the artist: Baz Luhrmann, director". Interview With Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2010.
“The essence of leadership is the capacity to build and develop the self-esteem of the workers.”
“Life-and-death. Lifedeath. One event. One short event. Don't forget.”
“Sometimes I just like the feeling of being a minority and seeing how far you can push yourself in extreme circumstances.”
“Blocking material leads to censorship. That goes for pornography and bestiality, too. If you don't like it, don't look at it... Every time I hear someone say, I want to protect the children, I want to pull my hair out.”

Source : "Preventing Kids From Seeing Illegal Smut Is Not Unconstitutional; It's Common Sense" by Janet M. LaRue, Senior Director of Legal Studies at the Family Research Council, "National Policy Center: Idea House", 2001.
“It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I got tired of doing battle with people thinking I was a little weird because I wasn't in a band making happy, stilted music. The only people who really seem weird to me are people who think they're normal. People who think it's possible to be normal just by doing the same things that most people do. Is there a most people? I don't know. Television makes it seem like there is, but I think that might just be television,”
“I don't know what it means to be a star because I don't really look at myself like a star. I look at myself as a regular person, just like everybody else. I just love what I do.”

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