“[About compassion] You can have the ‘golden rule’—do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But then you take it one step farther—where you just do good unto others, period. Just for the sake of it.”

—  Jennifer Beals

Interview on WCIU (4 May 2011) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns735UPlxKM/.

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