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		The way I wrote it is a nice and enjoyable way to write stories, to pretend to say something when you're really saying something else. "Hey guys, come, I'll take you a football match." They all come - and you suddenly take them to watch theater play on the stage instead. In Istanbul Istanbul, I pretend to talk about torture and politics, but I don't actually. Instead I talk about hope and hopelessness, darkness and light, good and evil, love and separation.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Burhan Sonmez 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan Colen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ferdinand Mount 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rachel Kushner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tatiana Maslany 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There is a way to share an insight into your personal life without being classless, which is what I'm trying to do. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mahesh Babu 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sam Altman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I wanted to be a senator from Illinois. I was obsessed with politics. My dad was friends with a lot of local politicians, so I would hang out with them on Election Day and hand out buttons. Somehow, even though they were opposite, I loved Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. I thought they were the coolest guys! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ike Barinholtz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ed Koch 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I was fourteen years old, our family drove all the way from Vancouver to Newfoundland and back. I've been all across the great land of Canada. I absolutely love the Maritimes, and I'm very excited to go back, particularly in the fall when it's one of the most beautiful places on Earth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Aaron Douglas 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War. It gave purpose and clarity to our politics and foreign policy, and our lives. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pat Buchanan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away. They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless. I've been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That's the stuff my dreams are made of. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Al Pacino 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Do you realize that at the moment we have Barry Goldwater fighting the Moral Majority, with The New York Times rooting for Goldwater? Times have changed. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				William A. Rusher 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		What I consider to be the barometer for what is a rock artist and what is not, is somebody who has a certain element of blues, even a hint of soul or blues music, derivative of African-American blues, folk, spiritual, or gospel. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		The main thing with my shows is that I'm professional but not highly polished. I don't like people to think they're just seeing an album in person. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Murray Head 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The way I wrote it is a nice and enjoyable way to write stories, to pretend to say something when you're really saying something else. "Hey guys, come, I'll take you a football match." They all come - and you suddenly take them to watch theater play on the stage instead. In Istanbul Istanbul, I pretend to talk about torture and politics, but I don't actually. Instead I talk about hope and hopelessness, darkness and light, good and evil, love and separation. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Burhan Sonmez