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		When you come into my pieces, it's not an intellectual experience, it's a physical experience. It's coming at your body. There's light, there's sound, the lights in some pieces are going on and off. There's loud roaring sound happening.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Bill Viola 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Dana Carvey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Zygmunt Bauman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Damon Lindelof 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				T. J. Miller 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Karen Salmansohn 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Sally Yates 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Otto von Bismarck 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Irwin Redlener 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Barry O'Farrell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Feist 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Patrick Carney 
			 
			
				The Black Keys  
			
			
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Edan Lepucki 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		If you are watching a fairy tale, that's why you go to fairy tales: you want these uncomplicated stories and uncomplicated characters. But if it's meant to be real life, you want there to be some reflection of your experience and have something you can hook into. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Clare-Hope Ashitey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you want to know whether soccer is big in America, pick a weekend, go to any park in the land, and pay attention. We're there. We've always been. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Rabih Alameddine 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My early novels were very understated and English. Fourteen years ago, I met and married my American husband, and as I learned more about his background and culture, I became interested in using American voices. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Laurie Graham 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Robert Frost 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When you come into my pieces, it's not an intellectual experience, it's a physical experience. It's coming at your body. There's light, there's sound, the lights in some pieces are going on and off. There's loud roaring sound happening. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Bill Viola