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My work is completed by the viewer.

Bridget Riley

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Riley, Bridget. "The Life of Riley." Interviewed by Jonathan Jones. Guardian, July 4, 2008, www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/jul/05/art1.

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Just give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Wait, wait. I worry what you just heard was, "Give me a lot of bacon and eggs." What I said was, "Give me all the bacon and eggs you have." Do you understand?

Ron Swanson

Parks and Recreation

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"Indianapolis." Parks and Recreation, written by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur and Katie Dippold, directed by Randall Einhorn, season 3, episode 6, Deedle-Dee Productions and Fremulon, 2011.

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I know you feel lost right now, but don't worry. Nothing is ever lost, or can be lost. The body, sluggish, ancient, cold, the embers left, from earlier fires, shall duly flame again.

The Notebook

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The Notebook. Directed by Nick Cassavetes, Gran Via, 2004.

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If being crazy means living life as if it matters, then I don't care if we're completely insane.

Revolutionary Road

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Revolutionary Road. Directed by Sam Mendes, DreamWorks Pictures/Paramount Vantage/BBC Films/Neal Street Productions/Evamere Entertainment, 2008.

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It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending

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Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 2.

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Fairer skin has been in favor for the past, what, couple hundreds of years. But, now the pendulum has swung back. Black is in fashion!

Get Out

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Get Out. Directed by Jordan Peele, Blumhouse Productions/QC Entertainment/Monkeypaw Productions, 2017.

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How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending

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Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 2.

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No matter how long you have been here, you are a New Yorker the first time you say, That used to be Munsey's, or That used to be the Tic Toc Lounge... You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.

Colson Whitehead

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Whitehead, Colson. The Colossus of New York. Doubleday, 2003, pt. 1.

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Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to.

Gladiator

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Gladiator. Directed by Ridley Scott. DreamWorks Pictures/ Scott Free Productions/Universal Pictures/Red Wagon Entertainment, 2000.

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Is not this simplier? Is this not your natural state? It's the unspoken truth of humanity, that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power, for identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel.

The Avengers

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The Avengers. Directed by Joss Whedon, Marvel Studios, 2012.

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Art allows you to imbue the truth with a sort of magic, so it can infiltrate the psyches of more people, including those who don't believe the same things as you.

Wangechi Mutu

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Mutu, Wangechi. Quoted in 33 Artists in 3 Acts, written by Sarah Thornton. W. W. Norton & Company, 2014, p. 59. Originally an interview with Sarah Thornton, c. 2013.

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It's cool, that you're strong and I respect it, I do. In the end, everybody breaks, bro. It's biology.

Zero Dark Thirty

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Zero Dark Thirty. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, Columbia Pictures/First Light Productions/Annapurna Pictures, 2012.

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As you know, you go to war with the army you have. They're not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

Donald Rumsfeld

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Rumsfeld, Donald. Remark about the lack of equipment in Iraq. 8 Dec. 2004, Kuwait.

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Rumsfeld, Donald. Quoted in Accountability for Killing: Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in America's Post-9/11 Wars, written by Neta C. Crawford. Oxford University Press, 2013.

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