Zoya Akhtar (1974) Indian film director
Zoya Akhtar & Reema Kagti - FC Post Mortem 15 Jun 2015, at 10 Min 25 Sec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4DGmAXNPt4 <br class="br">From interview with Film Companion
From Her Tours and CDs, I'm The One That I Want Tour
Zoya Akhtar (1974) Indian film director
Zoya Akhtar & Reema Kagti - FC Post Mortem 15 Jun 2015, at 10 Min 25 Sec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4DGmAXNPt4 <br class="br">From interview with Film Companion
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
"The Emotional Factor"
1920s, Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)
Context: I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds. One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.
Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) French Post-Impressionist artist
Original: Je suis un grand artiste et je le sais. C'est parce que je le suis que j'ai tellement enduré de souffrances. Pour poursuivre ma voie, sinon je me considérerai comme un brigand. Ce que je suis du reste pour beaucoup de personnes. Enfin, qu'importe! Ce qui me chagrine le plus c'est moins la misère que les empêchements perpétuels à mon art que je ne puis faire comme je le sens et comme je pourais le faire sans la misère qui me lie les bras. Tu me dis que j'ai tort de rester éloigné du centre artistique. Non, j'ai raison, je sais depuis longtemps ce que je fais et pourquoi je le fais. Mon centre artistique est dans mon cerveau et pas ailleurs et je suis fort parce que je ne suis jamais dérouté par les autres et je fais ce qui est en moi.
Source: 1890s - 1910s, The Writings of a Savage (1996), pp. 53-54: Quote in a letter to his wife, Mette (Tahiti, March 1892)
Assata Shakur (1947) American activist who was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army
Source: Assata: An Autobiography
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) American artist
Canyon, Texas, (September, 1916), p. 187
1910s, Letters to Anita Pollitzer' (1916)
Stacy McGaugh (1964) American astronomer
as quoted in [Cooper, Keith, Correlation between galaxy rotation and visible matter puzzles astronomers, 7 October 2016, physicsworld.com, http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2016/oct/07/correlation-between-galaxy-rotation-and-visible-matter-puzzles-astronomers]
Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility
Variant: Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
Source: Sense and Sensibility