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'Reality shows are the most prevalent and brutal evidence of the sustaining, unrelenting power of stereotype and how people are so willing to act that stereotype out.'

'Barbara Kruger: ...No work, no painting, no novel, no movie is as brilliant and masterful or as failed and minor as it's thought to be. Things get pumped up, and that has to do with our value systems.'

Twyla Tharp: "Editing means, how much objectivity do you have really? How much can you disassociate from your own bias? How much can you disassociate yourself from the wish fulfillment component that is involved in work of all sorts? You've got to become not you."