"I didn't know who Meredith Monk was, and I knew about Laurie Anderson but I didn't know her music that well."

-- Petra Haden

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“I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can't, I try to watch, and I enjoy that.”

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“People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.”

Source : Oliver Goldsmith (1835). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life and Notes”, p.86
“If you make a film set in London or in Pakistan or wherever, the thing that interests me is the relationships between individuals - individuals and society, individuals and their family, their girlfriend or boyfriend, it's all the same idea.”

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“All the marvels of nature are glimpses of His divine power and expressions of His love.”
“There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.”

Source : "Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society". Essay by Antonin Artaud, 1947.
“With the MacArthur grant, I realized that people have high expectations of me, that they were placing me in this group of achievers. I compared what Id actually achieved in my life with what I would like to achieve and what other people have achieved, and I found that comparison depressing.”
“Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.”
“The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete.”

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