"People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss."

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Source : Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.36, Penguin

Nick Hornby

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“Sexual pleasure is not a sin. Nor is it a sacrament. It is your right as a human being to exercise as you see fit. It's amazing that I feel the need to say this, but, given our times, I do.”
“I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In 1948 the first severe crash occurred in my life when Stalin put out his decree on formalism. There was a bulletin board in the Moscow Conservatory. They posted the decree, which said Shostakovichs compositions and Prokofievs were no longer to be played.”
“When angels visit earth, the messengers Of God's decree, they come as lightning, wind: Before the throne, they all are living fire.”

Source : Emma Lazarus (2002). “Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings”, p.236, Broadview Press
“When you sign with a major label there is no guarantee that they are going to release it either unless you have a guarantee clause or a marketing clause.”
“Our job in physics is to see things simply, to understand a great many complicated phenomena in a unified way, in terms of a few simple principles.”
“Evan Wolfson is a dear friend of mine. Almost more than any other, Evan is responsible for bringing the issue of marriage equality to the forefront of our struggle for civil rights. He is a courageous pioneer who has been relentless in this battle for marriage equality.”

Source : "Interview with Evan Wolfson: Marriage Equality and the Presidential Election" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2007.
“I love my life, my family and my friends, and I'm drawn to 'relationship' novels because of their affirming focus on the power of love to heal wounds and transform lives.”

Source : Interview with Suzanne Fox, www.publishersweekly.com. January 28, 2002.

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