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		I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Carly Patterson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. J. Abrams 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				A. R. Ammons 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Damien Hirst 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edmund Phelps 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Samuel Dash 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vincent D'Onofrio 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		We seem, particularly over here in the West and in America in particular, to have forgotten that we are, in large measures, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rabih Alameddine 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mark Zandi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walter Lippmann 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Utada Hikaru 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Carly Patterson