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I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.


Zach Galligan
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The most impactful comics that I've read are the ones where the artists swung for the bleachers and tried to immerse you in their world.
Adrian Tomine
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The contemporary notion that it's somehow inherently bad for a film to be 'talky' has done grave damage to the culture of American movie-making, enough so that a growing number of people, myself among them, have all but given up on Hollywood.
Terry Teachout
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I remember a distinct moment when it was my junior year of college, and the content I was making was changing and not really myself, and I tried to switch back to just putting me out there. I'm happy that happened really early in my career, because that was before I started doing podcasts or writing.
Tyler Oakley
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I'm a student of the movies. I'm a student of all media. This is what I do, and I like to immerse myself in what's current and what's topical. And I find that I'm drawn to those things.
Ian Ziering
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Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.


Adora Svitak
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Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. It's just straight-out ego gratification - how important I am; whether my name gets on the building or on the TV program or in the magazine article.
Richard Foster
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Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.
George Crumb
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Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost.


Kesha
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I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.


Lana Del Rey
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I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.
Len Wein
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Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
Frances E. Willard
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One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.
George Crumb
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Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.
Francis Spufford
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Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.
Rowan Williams
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I never tried to kill myself or anything.


Ronnie Spector
It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative person must always be engaged in the long labor of perfecting the tools of his art. Yet the work itself need not be explicitly evangelical in its themes and plots.
Michael O'Brien
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I've tried to quit writing several times, but I enjoy it too much.


Jack McDevitt
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I've never tried writing at a coffeehouse. I just know instinctively it's not for me.


Wentworth Miller
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The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism.
Chuck Klosterman