"If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art."

-- Jock Sturges

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“I'm actually not a very good driver, to be honest with you. I'm a scatterbrain driver. I'm not very focused. I'm always trying to find the right music station or put on a new CD or trying to eat something.”

Source : "The fruit of Lauren Lee Smith's labour". Interview with Petrina Gentile, www.theglobeandmail.com. April 13, 2011.
“The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral.”
“Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.”
“I love the Chinese words for greeting: not strictly 'Hello' but 'Have you eaten yet?”
“Yes, a war is inevitable. Firstly, there's you fellows who can't be trusted. And then there's the multitude who mean to have bathrooms and white enamel. Millions of them; all over the world. Not merely here. And there aren't enough bathrooms and white enamel in the world to go round.”
“One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from Appa-lay-chee-a with a Ph.D!' The dinner was in her house. And I said, 'My grandparents didn't have indoor plumbing, but they had more books in their house than you do.' I was a little insulted by the Appa-lay-chee-a business.”
“I always knew I was going to be a family man.”
“I am proud of my part in the creation of this new state. Our Government was the first to recognize the State of Israel.”

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