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		So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yohan Blake 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Magnus Larsson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Aaron Hill 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Garth Stein 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It may come as a surprise, but Frou Frou was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy and I, we have always worked together, and then over the years, it became clear that we wanted to do a whole album together. It was very organic and spontaneous - just one of those wonderful things that happens. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Imogen Heap 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Victor Hugo 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Abbas Kiarostami 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Samuel L. Jackson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				William E. Gladstone 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When it comes to my interpersonal relationships with men, of course, a lifetime of abuse vastly affected everything I did. I always came from a place of abuse, actually wanting, welcoming, and accepting it because that was my language. It never seemed strange to me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karrine Steffans 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A certain kind of Eden holds us thrall. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kay Ryan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Stephen Karam