"It isnâ€™t much use writing slogans on a wall if you plan to total the building."

-- Andrew Vachss

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“My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable. ...so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song.”
“If we look at life in its small details, how ridiculous it all seems. It is like a drop of water seen through a microscope, a single drop teeming with protozoa. How we laugh as they bustle about so eagerly and struggle with one another. Whether here, or in the little span of human life, this terrible activity produces a comic effect”
“News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.”

Source : Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley
“I spend around one hour per day on physical exercise. Exercise is a must for every chess player. As the proverb says, 'A sound mind in a sound body'.”
“I had learned from my reading that you can do really awful things when you are bored, things that are bound to make you miserable. In fact, you do them in order to become miserable, so you won't have to be bored anymore.”
“I would wake up at night and think, 'What the hell have I gotten myself into? You don't want to do that!' But you gotta do something, and with art, there's freedom - which is actually very seldom practiced by artists.”
“I am a 36-year-old person with breast cancer, and not many people know that that happens to women my age or women in their 20s. This is my opportunity now to go out and fight as hard as I can for early detection.”

Source : "Why She Had a Double Mastectomy". "The Oprah Winfrey Show", edition.cnn.com. 2008.
“David Lynch came out of it a genius, and I came out of it a fat girl. I'm sorry that the only comment I get about the part is the way I look. Commenting on the critics' response to her performance in Blue Velvet”

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