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"It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it's a damn good start."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"....And above all, it is your civilization, it is you. However much you hate it or laugh at it, you will never be happy away from it for any length of time."

George Orwell, British Author

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"A people that doesn't live at the center of the world, as defined and described by its poets and storytellers, is in a bad way. The center of the world is where you live fully, where you know how things are done, how things are done rightly, done well."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

Culture, Life, Knowledge, Poetry

"In Russia you learn patience," said Ivan. "In America you learn action."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"The problem with our culture is we cling to so many different truths. Yet, the truths that we cling to also depend on our point of view. Maybe, the journey to a truth that can be free of hatred, bias and injustice requires a journey of the soul to see all view points."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Culture, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

"Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one....This is the cause of that great sad American stereotype- the overstressed executive who goes on vacation, but who cannot relax."

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

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"Off this fucking predictable soap opera, this will happen now, then that, then that and you say that you are christian and you start watching series of Turkey people which believe in a very different god so far god of hell - Allah..."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Culture, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Today

"From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths " outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

Culture, Faith, Ideology, Tolerance

"I figured this guy was a fair dinkum Australian. The type of guy that worked the land all day, cracked open a beer or two at night and called girls 'sheilas'."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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"When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years."

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"Today it's not culture; it's box office."

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"Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions."

Music, Talent, Composers, Today

"I prefer to write music for family films. I like people."

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"Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero."

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"There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music."

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"Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt."

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"I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness."

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"My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan."

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"The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the '60s and '70s."

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