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		When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do. I don't wanna get ideas above my station, but why shouldn't this be comparable? Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later, and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Paul Weller 
			 
			
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		My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Dan Gable 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Sam Worthington 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Barbara Kruger 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Karel Capek 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		One of the things I think is important about 'Watchmen' is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Zack Snyder 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Music is the best means we have of digesting time. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				W. H. Auden 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as more of a fever dream. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Damien Chazelle 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jackie Joyner-Kersee 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Dana Spiotta 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Yuna 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Taylor Swift 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		The artist, however faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an officious state. The great artist is thus a solitary figure. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				John F. Kennedy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Working on TV can be quite insular. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		A movie shoots six months for two hours of film. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Margot Robbie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I always want to work. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Mary McCormack 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The minute your parents die, you stop fighting them. I realized the more I changed my face for films, the more I looked like him. I always liked to disguise myself because I was trying to run away from his image. But all that is not worth it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Vincent Cassel 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do. I don't wanna get ideas above my station, but why shouldn't this be comparable? Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later, and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Paul Weller 
			 
			
				Incognito