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“Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture.”
Source : Rae Armantrout (2009). “Versed”, p.97, Wesleyan University Press
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“I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.”
Source : "Oscar Niemeyer, architect of Brazil's capital, dies aged 104" by Jonathan Watts, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2012. 
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“North Korea invites parody. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. But consider that their indoctrination began in infancy, during the fourteen-hour days spent in factory day-care centers; that for the subsequent fifty years, every song, film, newspaper article, and billboard was designed to deify Kim Il-sung; that the country was hermetically sealed to keep out anything that might cast doubt on Kim Il-sung's divinity. Who could possibly resist?”
Source : Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.42, Granta
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“No one had ever done a swimming movie before so we just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own underwater movements.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“When I started singing as a freshman, I didn't sing for anybody - my parents or my friends. By the time I was a senior, the teacher asked me if I wanted to audition for a solo at my graduation. I was really nervous but I got it.”
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“A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'”
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“I want to know my whole story works before I start working.”
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“I grew up in the church not being able to listen to anything but gospel. So, while [other] people grew up with their parents listening to Marvin Gaye and Aretha Franklin, I never knew they existed until I was able to listen to what I wanted to.”
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“True literacy is becoming an arcane art and the nation [United States] is steadily dumbing down.”
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“The place looks like where David Lynch would meet Beaver Cleaver's mom for secret afternoons of bondage and milkshakes.”
Source : Richard Kadrey (2012). “Aloha from Hell (Sandman Slim, Book 3)”, p.22, HarperCollins UK
