"The director works as an interpretive artist, but he's still an artist, so you also have to give him room to create and to put his vision of the play or his translation or interpretation of the material on the stage."

-- August Wilson

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“Life affirming doesn't mean good things happen.”

Source : "Love & Sincerity: A Conversation with James Gray". Interview with Adam Cook, mubi.com. October 05, 2013.
“Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.”

Source : "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, 2006.
“Life does not play with marked cards.Winning or losing is part of it.”
“We donâ€™t like to think of ourselves as preyâ€”it is a lessening thoughtâ€”but the truth is that in our arrogance and so-called knowledge we forget that we are not unique. We are part of nature as much as other animals, and some animalsâ€”sharks, fever-bearing mosquitoes, wolves and bear, to name but a fewâ€”perceive us as a food source, a meat supply, and simply did not get the memo about how humans are superior. It can be shocking, humbling, painful, very edifying and sometimes downright fatal to run into such an animal.”
“It's a lifetime effort, trying to understand the way our minds work, and make it work in your favor and not against you.”
“I grew up in the suburbs, and I listened to hip-hop for the right reasons, which was to understand a culture that was beyond mine, and to understand what was going on in places outside of my sheltered bubble.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs.”
“You will throughout your life have people who will tell you that you're not good enough. Maybe they're jealous. Maybe they think you aren't. Maybe they've had a bad day. But ultimately you have to believe in yourself.”

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