"There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump."

-- Arnold Bennett

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“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed... To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life... One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.”
“Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.”
“We should do an Adorno reading on Skrillex and vodka sales in Vegas. It's definitely interesting. What's interesting in that music for me is the harmonic density in some crazy melodic line that sounds like some Michael Bay film eating itself. Which I enjoy in the same way I'll watch a cracked up Hollywood movie. Yet rhythmically, I guess that music just funnels more into predictable cash outcomes.”
“I'm a nice guy to anyone I meet, until they show me they don't deserve niceness. I'll turn very quickly. But I'm pretty pleasant overall.”

Source : "Noel Clarke: 'The films that I've written and directed aren't necessarily the kind I like watching'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2010.
“There's more people that like me than there are who hate me, so I kind of brush it off.”
“I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why.”
“It's fair to say average Americans think that the average Afghan doesn't want American troops in their country.”
“Some politicians like to kiss babies. I like to kiss the baby's mommas.”

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