"I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words."

-- Laurie Anderson

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“More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.”
“Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.”

Source : "Exclusive: TRON: LEGACY Director Joseph Kosinski on Easter Eggs, Secret Cameos, IMAX, Daft Punk B-Sides, Reshoots, and so Much More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 23, 2010.
“Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.”
“Breaking a glass in the northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a mark of appreciation or elation.”

Source : Jonathan Aitken (1971). “Land of fortune: a study of the new Australia”
“My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine it taking two men to write one song. ... Good authors, too, who once knew better words now use only four-letter words writing prose. ... Brush up your Shakespeare and they'll all kowtow.”
“You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.”
“[We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from the reality of death.”
“Making films has never just been a job to me, it is my life. I have some interests outside of acting - I sing and I've written books, for instance - but acting is what keeps me going, it's what I do, it gives life purpose.”

Source : “Johnny Depp Retirement Saddens Christopher Lee” by Michael Smith, guardianlv.com. August 10, 2013.

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