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“The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?”
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“Interview with a Vampire was lots of sex, so I'm not sure.”
Source : Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 29, 2004. 
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“I'm outspoken and I'm headstrong.”
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“A lot of artists were members of the artistic union. It gave you the possibility to buy paints, canvases, brushes, even the possibility to get a studio if you had the money to build it. It also gave you the possibility to make your living by making official art and then you would get a lot of "official" commissions: portraits, paintings, murals, etc.”
Source : "INTERVIEW: Monumenta 2014 Artists Ilya And Emilia Kabakov". Interview with Douglas MacKaye Harrington, www.hamptons.com.
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“I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its magic and the secret I would never know. I hated its indifference and the cruelty which was part of its loveliness. Above all I hated her. For she belonged to the magic and the loveliness. She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.”
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“My money slow, my money stupid, money ditzy”
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“Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.”
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“Three days a week and Im home at the ranch in Fallbrook with my avocados.”
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“Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.”
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“I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.”
Source : Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.20, Andrews McMeel Publishing
