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“If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room”
Source : "Larry Ellison, Lorne Michaels, and other 'superbosses' use 3 unusual traits to identify top-performing employees" by Jenna Goudreau, www.businessinsider.com. February 9, 2016.
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“Because as much as I love figuring out other people's puzzles, and love putting words together in ways that feel good to sing and sound good together and suit the melody, I think most of the best songs in the world are fairly clear about what they mean to say.”
Source : "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.
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“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.”
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“Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.”
Source : Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.66, Macmillan
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“My inspiration can come from anything - films, the street, paparazzi pictures.”
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“Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.”
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“I like films, I like movies, I like playing different characters and working with different actors, and filming in different places. I like movies, because it's kind of a combination of every art, it's like it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.”
Source : Source: www.ign.com
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“Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.”