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“The authenticity aspect is pretty important to me. When we have to compromise and do something that's not authentic, it really rubs me, every time I have to see it in the edit, which is millions of times.”
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“Work harder to appreciate your ordinary day.”
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“I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society.”
Source : "A Conversation With Author Carlos Fuentes". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. 1987. 
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“Fun is the most important. If you do stuff for money, it never works out.”
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“Hopefully I can finish my degree before I get done playing and work with my foundation.”
Source : "Getting to know WR Calvin Johnson". Detroit Lions Interview, www.detroitlions.com. May 28, 2012.
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“Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.”
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“Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the fatal error of coming hazily to regard time as non-existent. One year was like another year. Eventually everything would happen.”
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“Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.”
