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“Southerners smile more than other Americans.”
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“Every light has a point where it is brightest and a point toward which it wanders to lose itself completely. It must be intercepted to fulfill its mission; it cannot function in a void. Light can go straight, penetrate and turn back, be reflected and deflected, gathered and spread, bent as by a soap bubble, made to sparkle and be blocked. Where it is no more is blackness, and where it begins is the core of its brightness. The journey of rays from that central core to the outposts of blackness is the adventure and drama of light.”
Source : Josef Von Sternberg (1988). “Fun in a Chinese Laundry”
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“Republicans run the machine when it's their turn, and then hand the wheel over to Democrats when the public has had enough.”
Source : "Welcome to the Blagosphere" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2009. 
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“So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture.”
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“The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.”
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“In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do.”
Source : "Roy Harper: 'I fought like hell to stay alive'". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2011.
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“Roll rocks down a ten-thousand-foot mountain, and they cannot be stopped - this is because of the mountain, not the rocks. Get people to fight with the courage to win every time, and the strong and the weak unite - this is because of the momentum, not the individuals.”
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“They say everybody gets 15 minutes. I hope I'm just inside the first minute and the next 14 go really slow.”
