"In our culture, imitation-based experience dominates reality-based experience.Â I find this an awful thing. But there are artists who know from the bottom of their souls that art is about the experience of reality. The reason we have art is because you canâ€™t get a real experience from the world."

-- Richard Tuttle

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“On kissing Marilyn Monroe: It's like kissing Hitler.”
“My interests are guitars, cars, and vacation. I've been playing guitar all my life. My dad was a professional guitarist, but I'm terrible, which lets me off the hook, so I just play for myself.”

Source : "Josh Hartnett On “August”". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. July 15.
“The people wanted to believe that the Negroes couldn't learn to read music but had a natural talent for it. So we never played with no music. I'd get all the latest Broadway music from the publisher, and we'd learn the tunes and rehearse them until we had them all down pat- never made no mistakes. All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?”
“We found on our journey, as well as in the place where we stopped, that they treated us with as much confidence and good-will as if they had known us all their lives.”
“Throwing young people on the scrap heap is a public health emergency.”
“Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics.”

Source : "Steven Pinker: fighting talk from the prophet of peace". Interview with John Naughton, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2011.
“The window of opportunity to avoid dangerous climate change is closing more quickly than previously thought.”
“I definitely thought about it long and hard, about if I wanted to keep the baby or not, and I wasn't thinking about adoption. I do think every woman should have the right to do what they want, but I don't think it's talked through enough. I can't even tell you how many people just say, 'Oh, get an abortion.' Like it's not a big deal.”

Source : "Kourtney Kardashian Agonized Over Whether to Keep Her Baby" by David Caplan, people.com. August 19, 2009.

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