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		Funniest thing about love, how it shakes loose when no one's looking. How the dark helps it along. Maybe that's why we dug caves so much, way back when.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Catherynne M. Valente 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn't make any difference. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Im Dong-Hyun 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Abbas Kiarostami 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rachel Cusk 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny, the drastic shift in lifestyle that comes with it. It certainly satisfies my more adventurous side, but it leaves little time for contemplation and all of that. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Washed Out 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ed Gillespie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Oksana Baiul 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
		
	
	
	
	
		In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Maajid Nawaz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It places value on experience versus intellectual understanding. I saw a lot of people contemplating things but it didn't seem to lead to too many places. I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than an intellectual, abstract understanding. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Steve Jobs 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		That's all the information I need to know about the church, Jesus picked it. And so instead of me telling the church how she would really look better if she had this in her hair, or that over there, I think I'm just respecting the Groom's pick. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bob Goff 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Were I as base as is the lowly plain,
And you, my Love, as high as heaven above,
Yet should the thoughts of me your humble swain
Ascend to heaven, in honour of my Love. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Joshua Sylvester 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Funniest thing about love, how it shakes loose when no one's looking. How the dark helps it along. Maybe that's why we dug caves so much, way back when. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Catherynne M. Valente