"The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing."

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Walter Darby Bannard

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“My parents left Iran in 1979 and moved to France and then moved to the U.S. My brother was born in France and I was born in New York. I think my parents left France because they felt their kids would never be accepted by French culture. Here they thought we could feel American - that we could feel safe in that way - which was important to them, given what their experiences were in Iran. They used to joke about how I could be president because I was the only one born in America.”
“You don't often hear people say, 'Oh, since he's been taking them drugs, he's such a nice person! He's really come out of his shell, he's really nice, he's blossomed'.”
“Nobody does ladders like Jeff Hardy.”
“When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.”
“In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.”
“How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.”
“The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.”
“Before the formation of this Constitution it had been affirmed as a self evident truth, in the Declaration of Independence, very deliberately made by the Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled that 'all men are created equal, and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights' This declaration of Independence was received and ratified by all the States in the Union & has never been disannuled. May we not from hence conclude, that the doctrine of Liberty and Equality is an article in the political creed of the United States.”

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