"Courage and fear were one thing too."

-- John Steinbeck

“Comedy is such a private thing; it's not always easy to translate something funny from one language to another. It's very personal and cultural as well.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“I became really absorbed but again I was at that point - and I still remain today - an outsider who has no interest in becoming an insider, let alone in what that insider perspective on [Buckminster Fuller] has come to be and come to represent.”
“The hour has arrived to abandon theories and go directly to what is practical.”
“We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.”
“Laughter is just a slowed down scream of terror.”
“Notes are part of life for any composer for hire. There's no way around it. I think anyone who has done even a small number of films as a professional composer gets used to that idea pretty quickly.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“You can't write a book if you've never read a book. And if you've read five books and you try to write a book, your book will mainly encompass the themes and the context of the five books you've read. Now, the more books you read, the more you can bring to a book when you decide to write one. So the more rap I learned, the more I was able to bring to rap when I decided to rap. But this was all subconscious.”

Source : Interview with Jon Caramanica, believermag.com. June 1, 2006.
“Music is part of Number Theory. Nowadays when a number-theorist applies for a grant, he says that it is good for security, but in those days, way before America, he would say that it's good for music. I will not comment whether we have progressed...”

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