"You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy."

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Robert Caro

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“When you ask people what it is like being part of a great team, what is most striking is the meaningfulness of the experience. People talk about being part of something larger than themselves, of being connected, of being generative. It becomes quite clear that, for many, their experiences as part of truly great teams stand out as singular periods of life lived to the fullest.”
“If I go back to the beginning, I could start it over again. I could go line by line; try and find a shorter way. I could try to make it... better.”

Source : "Proof". www.imdb.com. 2005.
“We speak much of God, and talk of him, his ways, his works; the truth is, we know very little of him.”
“In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.”
“The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear.”
“There's generally no good reason why others should care about most of any one artist's work. The function of the overwhelming majority of your artwork is simply to teach you how to make the small fraction of your artwork that soars.”

Source : David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.5, Image Continuum Press
“The ways of sin are curious . . . I guess if a man had to shuck off everything he had, inside and out, he'd manage to hide a few little sins somewhere for his own discomfort. They're the last things we'll give up.”
“I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.”

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