"When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout the world."

-- Leon Panetta

“This is the life I live, and this is the stuff I experience. And like any good writer, I should just write about what goes in my life and what goes on around me. So that's what I chose to do.”
“Artwork operates on two different levels: On one level there's artwork as a mode of expressivity, and then there's the other side, where the image is a construction that is meant to engage in a discursive field in order to preform a particular function.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Play: It is an an activity which proceeds within certain limits of time and space, in a visible order, according to rules freely accepted, and outside the sphere of necessity or material utility. The play-mood is one of rapture and enthusiasm, and is sacred or festive in accordance with the occasion. A feeling of exaltation and tension accompanies the action.”

Source : Johan Huizinga (1949). “Homo Ludens”, p.132, Taylor & Francis
“My father used to look at people and he treated everyone with such respect, and he always believed that he would rather trust you face on and be disappointed perhaps down the road, be disappointed some of the time rather than never to trust someone, never to believe in someone, and alas, be disappointed all the time. There's a big difference there.”

Source : Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
“Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.”
“How long will you keep me?" I asked. You shrugged. "Forever, of course.”

Source : Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.29, Scholastic Inc.
“A writer's voice is not character alone, it is not style alone; it is far more. A writer's voice line the stroke of an artist's brush- is the thumbprint of her whole person- her idea, wit, humor, passions, rhythms.”
“I have just taken on a great responsibility. I will do my utmost to meet it.”

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