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"I felt it was part of the spirit of the whole program to do more than simply make an object."
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"The spirit of arrogance most definitely makes you shine. It paints a bright red target on your own forehead."

"Thou, my slave,As thou report'st thyself, was then her servant,And for thou wast a spirit too delicateTo act her earthy and abhorred commands,Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee,By help of her more potent ministersAnd in her most unmitigable rage,Into a cloven pine, within which riftImprisoned thou didst painfully remainA dozen years; within which space she diedAnd left thee there, where thou didst vent thy groansAs fast as mill wheels strike."

"Hope is oxygen to the soul, and God is the oxygen of hope."

"The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying."

"A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit."

"I'm just a soul whose intentions are good,'" he sang to the crabs and the spiders and the palmetto beetles and the lizards and the night. '"Oh lord, please don't let me be misunderstood."
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"At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture."

"The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility."

"The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology."

"I felt it was part of the spirit of the whole program to do more than simply make an object."
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