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" ‘Hemlock’ is so intelligently written and brilliantly put together. Every detail in the show is there for a reason, and it fascinates me. " - Madeline Brewer

" I like the idea of using all this science and technology to allow for our clients to have a deeper insight into the market. " - Adena Friedman

" But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it. " - Diane Johnson

" Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. " - George Bernard Shaw

" A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration. " - Richard Schickel

" It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. " - Anatole France

" When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself. " - Bob Marley

" We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man. " - Ernest Shackleton

" When you have really good writing, you’re compelled by the actors who are in it, and you may think it’s the actors or the design or the filmmaking of it, but then you’re like, ‘Well, the base is a really rich story that these guys have created.’ " - David Costabile

" I think I have met nearly all the Laureates in Economics. Among the few I haven’t met, I suppose I’d most like to meet Ronald Coase because of his legendary power to persuade his colleagues of the validity of the Coase Theorem. " - Eric Maskin