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		If the WormCam had shown nothing else, he thought, it was this, with pitiless clarity: that the lives of most humans had been miserable and short, deprived of freedom and joy and comfort, their brief moments in the light reduced to sentences to be endured.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Arthur C. Clarke 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Naomi Wolf 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Quentin Blake 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Feist 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				L. Neil Smith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Creative people are more prone to depression. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Adam Ant 
			 
			
				Adam and the Ants  
			
			
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Eddie Albert 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		There's more to research than just looking up facts. Eventually, you have to make subjective calls. If you're writing a science fiction novel, there's probably some speculative technology in it. You'll have to decide how to project existing technology forward in a plausible way. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Andy Weir 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ta-Nehisi Coates 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ian Anderson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Funny how the U.S. sends in the military to fight “terrorists” in any country which has resources we want.... 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ziad K. Abdelnour 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If the WormCam had shown nothing else, he thought, it was this, with pitiless clarity: that the lives of most humans had been miserable and short, deprived of freedom and joy and comfort, their brief moments in the light reduced to sentences to be endured. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Arthur C. Clarke