"The artist's duty to himself is a combination of immense responsibility and immense irresponsibility. I think those two interlock."

-- David Cronenberg

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“My friends they were dancing here in the streets of Huntsville when our first satellite orbited the Earth. They were dancing again when the first Americans landed on the Moon. I'd like to ask you, don't hang up your dancing slippers.”
“Ibn Ata' Allah said: "God may open up for you the gates of obedience, but without opening up for you the gates of acceptance. On the other hand, He may Allow you to fall into disobedience which happens to lead you to the right path. DISOBEDIENCE that teaches you HUMILITY is better than PIETY that fills you with VANITY and ARROGANCE.”
“Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept.”
“Whatever you do, do it for love. If you keep to that, your path will never wander so far from the light that you can never return.”
“Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon.”
“The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it.”
“I took everything really seriously and was overly sensitive about things, and I think that's rooted in perfectionism.”
“A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.”

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