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" He who knows himself is enlightened. " - Lao Tzu

" What’s wonderful about Tolkien and Shakespeare is that they show up your own individual microscope. They’re so infinitely vast. You can reinterpret them in so many ways. " - Andy Serkis

" It’s hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice. " - Cass McCombs

" Things are never crystal clear, but at some point, they reveal themselves to you. You just hope it happens when you’re still on set. " - Casey Affleck

" A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons. " - Philip Roth

" A poem, necessarily, sits at a register that’s different from our usual conversational voices. You have to listen more actively to get to the heart of what’s being said, what you as a reader or listener are being asked to feel or notice. " - Tracy K. Smith

" I know what labels and artists need, along with the consumer. " - Jimmy Iovine

" Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole. " - Margaret J. Wheatley

" Often it is important to listen to what people aren’t saying. " - Peter Bergen

" All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing. " - D. H. Lawrence