"To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master."

-- Susan Sontag

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“I like when people question if the characters are really villains or protagonists. These types are very interesting to write about.”

Source : Source: www.blackfive.net
“From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.”

Source : Introductory Lectures (1850)
“I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.”
“If you come every day or every month to my studio, you won't see that much change, but if you come once a year, you'll see big new categories opened up.”

Source : "Artists in Their Studios: Caio Fonseca". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. May 2, 2012.
“I did a film about child abuse with the great producer-director Richard Donner, Radio Flyer. Again, I was replacing somebody, but Lorraine Bracco was in it, and they wanted me as the cop in the thing to fall in love with Lorraine, but I said I wouldn't. I mean, I'm a cop, and she's ignoring that her kids are being beaten up by their stepfather. And we had an argument... well, not an argument, but a discussion about it. I said, "I just don't feel right. It's like you're taking everything away from the reality of the movie. Aren't you kind of idealizing this a little bit?”

Source : Source: tv.avclub.com
“We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things â€” and above all on ourselves.”
“How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.”
“I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.”

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