"For artists diving into a new technology, it is a triple short-cut to mastery: you get a free ride on the novelty of the medium; there are no previous masters to surpass; and after a few weeks, you are the master. Try that with the violin."

-- Stewart Brand

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“Our country is the world-our countrymen are all mankind.”
“Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags and crazy people.”
“It helps to even look in the mirror - and it sounds so cheesy - but if you just look in the mirror and say, 'You are beautiful,' and 'You are worthy,' those things really help you.”
“Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor.”
“Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.”

Source : 'The Inconstant' (1702) act 4, sc. 2
“Everybody does that now. We all take pics... you do the same with holiday photos. You record something to look back on it, even though youâ€™re not really there when youâ€™re taking the picture â€˜cause youâ€™re too busy recording it - so you retrospectively go to look back on where you werenâ€™t and tell yourself you had a good time.”

Source : "Dylan Moran: Monster". Video, November 15, 2004.
“You definitely meet a lot of extremely powerful, successful, wealthy people in Hollywood who are extremely miserable.”

Source : "Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt, and Screenwriter Diablo Cody YOUNG ADULT Interview". Press Conference in New York City, collider.com. December 6, 2011.
“An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.”

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