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“I used to be really into traditional meditation, but I found that creating new music is the best meditation. When I'm able to get into that space, nothing else matters, and I'm just a vessel for whatever the message is; I feel like I'm not in control. It's like this organic communication, and I feel like that is the quiet, in a way.”
Source : Source: pitchfork.com
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“Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.”
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“Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting.”
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“You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.”
Source : Interview with Iman Baghai, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2012.
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“Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.”
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“I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera. I look into the camera and take pictures. My photographs are the tiniest part of what I see that could be photographed. They are fragments of endless possibilities.”
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“Creativity is the mother of all energies, nurturer of your most alive self. It charges up every part of you. When you're plugged in, a spontaneous combustion occurs that 'artists' don't have a monopoly on.”
Source : Judith Orloff (2004). “Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love”, p.192, Harmony
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“Critics are giving marks for originality, acting, photography and scripting, while mass audiences are more drawn to familiarity of genre, stars they would like to have sex with or plots that are more likely to make their dates have sex with them. Reviewers are doing their day's work, cinema-goers are escaping from theirs: this leads to an inevitable difference of response. It is, though, wrong to conclude that reviewers are completely useless. Books, movies and shows may be critic-proof, but the egos and psyches of the people who make them very rarely are.”
Source : "Who cares what the reviews say?" by Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2006.