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Dar Williams Singer-songwriter
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"The only I would say is a little different is when I know my parents are in the audience. That's never going to be the same as another concert."

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Dar Williams Singer-songwriter
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"A lot of the songs are pretty unmasked. If you listen to "As Cool As I Am," it's not all that different from what you were hearing from Ani DiFranco and some of the other indie women artists of the time. It was still in that context, still seen as folk music."

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Carson McCullers Novelist
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"It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right. Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him."

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Benjamin Percy Author, Screenwriter
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"I wanted it to be as multi-windowed as possible, so that the reader felt like they were seeing all the different ways in to a big haunted house."

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Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist
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"What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century."

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David Musician
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"Had partition beencarried out, the history of our people would have been different and six millionJews in Europe would not have been killed---most of them would be inIsrael"

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David Bowie Musician, Actor
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"[David] Bowie had a genius for continual change himself, reinventing his sound and his image throughout the decades. Each album seemed to find Bowie in a different persona, with a new sound to match his new look."

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David Simon Television Producer
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"Our future can't be separated from the fact that we are all going to be increasingly compacted into urban areas, though we're different in race and culture and religion. And what we make of that will determine the American future."

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Demetri Martin Comedian, Actor
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"I always wanted to do a movie, because I love the movies. They give you a chance to have an intimacy with your audience that is different from stand up. With movies, you can bring the audience in with a close up, and emote in a different way."

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Demetri Martin Comedian, Actor
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"I just started doing this one-man show, and I wanted to be able to score it, so I bought a guitar, and got a keyboard and got a harmonica. I remember when I started that I didn't understand why a harmonica had different letters on them."

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Demetri Martin Comedian, Actor
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"My family was fine, it's just a different way of going about life. Creativity was not something that was isolated and identified and valued."

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"People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But in fact, they are not at all different."

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