"I have always regarded the development of the individual as the only legitimate goal of education."

-- Susan Jacoby

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“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”
“Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude.”
“I like the way dreams present themselves as words and images that are trying to get your attention using your model-making brain's ability to make up stories.”

Source : "The Edge of Dreaming". Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts, www.pbs.org. August 24, 2010.
“As far as guys who perform onstage, I love Chris Rock. I'm kind of jaded on everyone else.”
“Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again.”
“All artists are protected by copyright... and we should be the first to respect copyright.”
“Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.”
“I don't take much notice of reviews now - obviously you'd like to have straight worship but you're never going to get that.”

Source : "Better than Amis?" by Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2003.

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