"The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free society and are still among the greatest threats to our liberty."

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Source : "The whole world in our hands" by Neil MacGregor, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2004.

Neil MacGregor

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“I am a freelancer. My services are available to anyone at any time.”
“First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.”
“You know, there's such a very thin dividing line between inspiration and obsession that sometimes it's very hard to decide which side we're really on.”
“I love it, but it's not important to me to always be thought of as sexy. I like it when it doesn't limit my career. It's a part of my life, but on a secondary plane”
“If a tree falls in the woods and no one's around to hear it, it still very probably makes a sound. A baseball game that's played with no one around to watch it, though that's a different proposition.”

Source : "Hell Isn't (Necessarily) Other People". Book by Carson Cistulli, 2010.
“I always find myself gravitating to the analogy of a maze. Think of film noir and if you picture the story as a maze, you don't want to be hanging above the maze watching the characters make the wrong choices because it's frustrating. You actually want to be in the maze with them, making the turns at their side, that keeps it more exciting...I quite like to be in that maze.”
“There are interactions with characters within the game which I think are pretty neatly done considering the limitations that you have to work with. I mean, a computer can't really generate a character that talks back and forth with you successfully.”
“It means a lot when people understand what I'm going for.”

Source : "InDepth InterView: Donna McKechnie - Part I". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. June 18, 2010.

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