"Every great inspiration is but an experiment."

-- Charles Ives

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“Reason has never really directed social reality, but now reason has been so thoroughly purged of any specific trend or preference that it has finally renounced even the task of passing judgment on man's actions and way of life. Reason has turned them over for ultimate sanction to the conflicting interests to which our world actually seems abandoned.”
“I just didn't want to get bored playing a character, and that's kind of the benefit of doing films; you've lived with a character for four or five months and that's it, and you walk away from that character and you feel like you told a story.”

Source : "‘Magic City’: Jeffrey Dean Morgan On His Return To TV And The Allure Of New Starz Series" by Laura Prudom, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2012.
“Maturity is not equated with independence though it includes a certain capacity for independence...The independence of the mature person is simply that he does not collapse when he has to stand alone. It is not an independence of needs for other persons with whom to have relationship: that would not be desired by the mature.”
“The more things you do outside of your norm, the more ideas you get exposed to, the more people you get exposed to, and I think that's interesting.”

Source : "Acting, Gaming, and Math Science With 'Searching For Sonny' Star Masi Oka". Interview with Charles Webb, www.mtv.com. August 29, 2012.
“Complexity serves nothing but our ego. Be able to say what you do in a way that people can understand.”
“The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.”
“Alone.'Twas her destiny to be ever surrounded by others, yet ever alone.”

Source : Teresa Medeiros (2011). “Charming the Prince”, p.55, Bantam
“People are morons. I don't do any social media stuff. I have people telling me all the time, "You should do Twitter, you should do this, you should get on Facebook." Are you insane? I'm not doing any of that crap. I stay the hell off that thing. Every once in a while, I send a business email, and that's it.”

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