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		Whether you're Godard or Almodovar or Scorsese, it's text, text, text. Everything begins with the text, and this is a source of great anguish to me. So please let cinema get on with doing what it does best, which is expressing ideas in visual terms.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Peter Greenaway 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jack Williamson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Caleb Landry Jones 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		People are like, 'What's Game of Thrones about?' I'm like, 'It's in the title.' For real, this is a game for the Iron Throne. No matter what character you are, you're sucked into that at some point. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Maisie Williams 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				L. Ron Hubbard 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Caleb Cushing 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Orison Swett Marden 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		DeNiro did a good job playing a catcher in 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' but he's great in everything he does. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				D. B. Sweeney 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Iman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Tecumseh 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ziggy Marley 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Walter Mosley 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It is such a gift to be able to write songs in general, but when you can share it with somebody, it is just such a pleasure. It is such a happy moment when you finish a song, and you are just like, 'Wow - that was great.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Valerie June