"We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours."

-- Northrop Frye

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“Everything Will Ferrell says during scenes is so funny and so natural. I was amazed at his genius.”
“When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn't say that I wasn't popular. I was a cheerleader when I was in junior high. I didn't make it in high school so I started a dance line.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“You can't pursue something and be committed to it if you're apologizing for it at every party.”

Source : "25 Powerful Commencement Speeches by Famous Women" by Julie Ma, www.thecut.com. June 26, 2015.
“Suffering belongs to no language.”

Source : Adélia Prado (2011). “The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems”, p.44, Wesleyan University Press
“There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels strange - I feel like I have to reinvent the wheel. There are poets who don't have to do that.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.
“You love somebody, and then you don't love them anymore. But if you really love somebody, you always love them, don't you? Isn't there always some small part of you that reads their horoscope in the paper everyday?”
“When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.”
“I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.”

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