"I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect. The anything-goes, anarchic qualities of jazz and Surrealism seemed to offer a way to cross some of the forbidden frontiers of Eastern Europe."

-- Nicholas Royle

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“Right now, it's just a matter of getting my strength and endurance back. So far, no setbacks.”
“A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu”
“Where-so-ever beings exist throughout all galaxies, it doesn't make any difference - you are all of them....and when they come into being, that's you coming into being.”
“To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.”
“The smell of rain is rich with life.”

Source : Estela Portillo Trambley (1975). “Rain of Scorpions and Other Writings”, Tqs Publications
“Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true. Everything that is not puts us in a rage.”
“Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.”
“As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.”

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