Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable. - John Edgar Wideman

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If the script is not so good and it is a great director you're more likely to do it. But generally speaking, my passion for a project starts or stops with the quality of the script.

John Edgar Wideman

Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable.

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Do not fall asleep in your enemy's dream.

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That split is inside all Americans. There are contradictions inside all of us about color and race. We've learned to cover them up and live with them and pretend that deep cleavage is not there. We all bear that illness.

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As a writer, you don't know what the hell you're doing. You're just doing it. You hope it works out well.

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Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We're dreamers and - since we only have one life, and if we screw up we can get in a world of trouble - we're very intense dreamers. That's the beauty and the terror of being human beings: We just have these symbolic languages, these dreams, and that's all it ever is. There is no American or Frenchhistory. There are all these dreams that are floating around. People construct them and fight with them and criticize them, and the world goes on. I don't think the stars pay much attention.

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A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips and teaches us to perceive reality differently.

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Where there is a lack of other connections, of meaningful moments, in our lives, music can often full the gap.

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Carl Jung

Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide

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Richard Dawkins

The idea that God could only forgive our sins by having his son tortured to death as a scapegoat is surely, from an objective point of view, a deeply unpleasant idea. If God wanted to forgive us our sins, why didn't he just forgive them? Why did he have to have his son tortured?

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Amy Goodman

Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U. S. Constitution, because journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on government. We're supposed to be holding those in power accountable. We're not supposed to be their megaphone. That's what the corporate media have become.

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Dougray Scott