"Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic."

-- Chuck Close

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“[Richard Drew] always encouraged his people to pursue ideas... He said, "If it's a dumb idea, you'll find out. You'll smack into that brick wall, then you'll stagger back and see another opportunity that you wouldn't have seen otherwise."”
“SavingÂ our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth â€“Â these are one and the same fight.”
“I feel that we should try and understand how we as women storytellers have often fallen into the mode of telling stories in the ways in which traditionally men would. I often find that my points of view are expressed by male characters.”

Source : "TIFF 2015 Women Directors: Meet Danae Elon – ‘P.S. Jerusalem’". Interview with Freja Dam, www.indiewire.com. September 11, 2015.
“Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.”
“I might take what I do very seriously, but at least I'm doing something, rather than sitting on my arse and being no-one.”
“If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.”

Source : "How James Dyson Makes the Ordinary Extraordinary". Interview with Shoshana Berger, www.wired.com. November 19, 2012.
“I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.”
“Any team sport, there are certain team targets and those targets should always be in the forefront.”

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