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“I do not believe it right for one group to impose its vision of morality on an entire society.”
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“We are looking at these rock 'n' roll campers, and we know what is going on in their minds because we've been there.”
Source : Source: www.washingtontimes.com
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“The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears.”
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“Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our positive qualities - those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness.”
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“I want to try to come away from that one directional, clear rectangular form. It's not used because it's the most beautiful form; it's just the practical thing. That's why our TVs are rectangles. Even in modern architecture, they want us to believe, "That's the nicest, most beautiful thing." I love modern architecture, but actually it's that they cannot afford amorphous shapes or ornaments.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“We all become well-disguised mirror image of anything that we fight too long or too directly. That which we oppose determines the energy and frames the questions after a while. Most frontal attacks on evil just produce another kind of evil in yourself, along with a very inflated self-image to boot.”
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“I live in rural Alabama, and it's very conservative. I've had one guy say 'you can't be a minister and a DJ at the same time'. I thought 'how does someone get to choose what God has assigned me to do - God has given me a ministry.”
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“The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.”
Source : Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.45, New York Review of Books
