"I didn't really expect to be coming to the Oscars."

-- Daniel Woodrell

“My mom is Christian, and she wouldn't let us listen to rock music. So me and my brother, we had this tape player with head phones, and we locked ouselves in the pantry. We were fighting over the headphones, sitting in the dark pantry listening to Metallica.”
“Nature expresses a design of love and truth.”
“Wars are started by the truth. Peace is proclaimed with lies.”
“It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws”
“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
“All my life I've always been so blue, born to lose, and now I'm losing you.”
“Girlhood ... is the intellectual phase of a woman's life, that time when, unencumbered by societal expectations or hormonal rages, one may pursue any curiosity from the mysteries of the yo-yo to the meaning of infinity. These two particular pursuits were where I left off in the fifth grade when I discovered a hair growing in the wrong place and all hell broke loose.”
“I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.”

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