"If my father were still writing essays, every full-grown 'girl' would probably be transformed into a'woman'."

-- Anne Fadiman

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“Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you.”
“What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?”

Source : Nathaniel Hawthorne (2016). “The Snow Image: The Devil World”, p.47, 谷月社
“No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February.”
“We're not going to walk into the World Cup thinking, 'Ah, you know, we beat Norway 5-0 and we beat Japan so now we're great and we're untouchable'. It's a reality check for a few guys and that's a good thing at this time so it doesn't happen on June 12 (when the U.S. team opens World Cup play against the Czech Republic).”
“The question is not whether the good outweighs the bad. The question is whether or not the good excuses the bad. And, in my opinion, it doesn't. It never does. As long as wrongs are being commited, in any quantity, and in any ratio to the amount of good that is being done, it is both irresponsible and wrong not to bring awareness to it, and struggle to put an end to it.”
“There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.”
“And you know, whether it's drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over.”

Source : "Veep's Tony Hale talks about Arrested Development and creeping out James Van Der Beek". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2012.
“In my experience, we don't make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn't personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.”

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