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-- J. G. Ballard

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“Filmmaking materials are in the hands of more people now than ever before. I would like to think that the more people have these tools, the more people will learn how to use them, it's another argument I would argue for, personally, for art's education. Because there are kids who aren't that literate in screen language and they've got to know how people select shots, how people edit audio, how people combine things to make what they see on the screen. It would be like the 15th century or the 16th century in Germany, and somebody amends a printing press and you don't know how to read and write.”
“I'm not afraid of working hard at anything, whatever it is. I just always want to be the best that I can.”

Source : "Yeah, About That Half Marathon..." by Ilana Ross, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2015.
“Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. [â€¦] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there.”

Source : "Socialism in One Galaxy?" by Nicole Colson, socialistworker.org. September 15, 2016.
“When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.”
“Puerto Rico has a stray dog problem. Tens of thousands of homeless canines - hundreds of thousands, by some estimates - live and die on the streets and beaches all over this Caribbean island of almost four million people.”
“They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.”
“Choose the human race over the nuclear race. Bury the weapons and don't burn the people.”
“I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy.”

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