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“If poems very different from my own bring pleasure to a group of readers, who am I to say that the poems should have been written differently?”
Source : "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.
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“It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s.”
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“Over the weekend it came out that the U.S. has been listening in on German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cellphone since 2002. At this point, I feel like the only world leader our government DOESN'T listen to is President Obama.”
Source : Source: www.npr.org
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“The voice stuff is super fun and I get to be anyone, but on-camera, I get to go in with wardrobe and sets and stuff and be in an environment that's not normal, and I love that.”
Source : "E.G. Daily on Pee-Wee, Valley Girl, and what goes on in those voice-over booths". Interview with Gwen Ihnat, film.avclub.com. October 7, 2015.
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“In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)”
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“Let those only return to their homes who are called by the imperative duties which they owe to their families, and those who by their glorious wounds have deserved the credit of their country.”
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“Be the captain of your ship. Breathe and be grateful.”
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“Back in the 1930s, Carl Jung, the eminent thinker and psychologist, put it this way: Criticism has 'the power to do good when there is something that must be destroyed, dissolved or reduced, but [it is] capable only of harm when there is something to be built.”
Source : Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton (2001). “Now, Discover Your Strengths”, p.124, Simon and Schuster