You need something like Sesame Street to sort of increase the volume of good in the world. And also to know that through creativity, you can make change. Positive change can occur if you’re willing to see a problem and try to fix it and do it creatively.
— Trevor Crafts
Steve Rose, “The Secret History of Sesame Street: “It was utopian – it’s part of who we all are”, The Guardian, 11 December 2021, https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/dec/11/found-photographs-sesame-street-season-one-utopian, accessed 5 January 2022.
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A hunch
Logically, a hunch makes as much sense as saying, horses have tails; therefore, all tails have horses.” But in the zany world of films you don’t explain hunches — you just live and die by them. Frank Capra (1971) The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography. Macmillan, p. 123.
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Bach’s reputation“The difference between the reputation that Bach enjoyed in his lifetime and that which accumulated posthumously is one of the most remarkable phenomena in the history of music.” Siblin, Eric (2009) The Cello Suites. Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, p. 65.
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