J. Neven-Pugh quote: "My biggest hope for this work is that it will help others to remember the sacrifices made for our freedom, and even more so to remember that the men, women, and children all involved in and affected by this era were not just statistics: they were people just like we are, with the same hopes, dreams, and very imminent fears."

Some days I feel more like a scribe than a creator. I will have the major points fleshed out, but th...
J. NEVEN-PUGH

My biggest hope for this work is that it will help others to remember the sacrifices made for our fr...
J. NEVEN-PUGH, PRESS RELEASE

Dancing with abandon, turning a tango into a fertility rite.
MARSHALL PUGH

They exchanged the quick, brilliant smile of women who dislike each other on sight.
MARSHALL PUGH

If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.
EMERSON PUGH

Makes me sad that she was left so unattended for a couple of days to where I don't know how well she...
LARRY PUGH

Pop punk has been without revolution.
WILL PUGH

Pop punk today isn't going anywhere.
WILL PUGH

I think in black.
GARETH PUGH

There are a lot of things that can be accomplished here. Those are some of the things that enticed m...
GEORGE PUGH

I found it too upsetting to walk through Chinatown afterwards in case there was any recognition. It ...
DAVID PUGH

The police came and were very supportive. Forty-five minutes after the theft, a lady found an empty ...
DAVID PUGH

There's a way to do it, and I think we can find it.
DAVID PUGH

I think ducks may be a first.
DAVID PUGH

I am very concerned. She had done 30 performances and was our best duck,
DAVID PUGH

City Hall wouldn't be what it is today without her, ... I don't think you can go to any city hall ar...
DAVID PUGH

They all were deserving,
DAVID PUGH

I'm glad to say we will be liberated in seven weeks after serving our full prison sentences. We will...
DAVID PUGH

I hope they don't try to take this duck to water. Indian runners don't swim.
DAVID PUGH

We've got something for everybody this year.
GAYLA PUGH

We call them the 'dynamic duo' because they're both short and full of energy.
GAYLA PUGH

She's amazing. Not only is she a board member, but she's also a very successful business woman. She ...
GAYLA PUGH

Their office is quite nice, and they are ready to do business.
GAYLA PUGH

It seems like a double whammy this year. This is the worst I've seen.
GEORGE PUGH

It seems like a double whammy this year, ... This is the worst I've seen.
GEORGE PUGH

I'm looking forward to maybe bringing in some more kids who have that talent level. There's just no ...
GEORGE PUGH

When that opportunity came (to go to Arkansas), I just wanted to look at it, ... They had approached...
GEORGE PUGH

That was the last recruiting class I was part of here,
GEORGE PUGH

Coming in on the ground floor several years ago was great. But having the opportunity to come back i...
GEORGE PUGH

I think the results are excellent and promising.
FRANK PUGH

Hopefully, the public will be patient because this is a big deal.
FRANK PUGH

If we're going to get to a point of closing a school, I want to rest easy at night knowing that we h...
FRANK PUGH

There's been a great synthesis of ideas.
FRANK PUGH

Last summer, she sat out in the front yard and gave away a litter. She sat out with a little sign an...
LARRY PUGH

She's always had dogs. They've come before and taken 15 to 20 dogs a couple of times out of there. S...
LARRY PUGH

The kids just can't wait.
LON PUGH

I added some extra roles to involve more students.
LON PUGH

The nice thing about this cast is that we have quite a few veterans from other productions, but we h...
LON PUGH

The cast is absolutely up to the challenge. I feel that I have a very strong cast.
LON PUGH

We wanted this to be made known. And I think by bringing it out front, we kind of made the Sheriff's...
JENNIFER PUGH

Nobody is listening to us. We've given (township officials) feedback. We're not going to let it stop...
JENNIFER PUGH

Three years is a long time. We wanted to get some closure.
JENNIFER PUGH

I thought the officials did a pretty good job. There were some things. But overall, I thought it was...
SANDY PUGH

I opened it up a little more today. I love having a tough draw. There are a lot of ranked guys on my...
SETH PUGH

I'd rather have a gold medal, but I guess people know about us now. I thought we were the best dual ...
SETH PUGH

We have raised $7 million for the Boca project. However, costs of the project have gone up, so we re...
VICKI PUGH

In the cold, all the blood rushes to your core to protect your heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, and bra...
LEWIS GORDON PUGH

I think that I was slightly naive. I thought that if I showed people the beauty of the Arctic and th...
LEWIS GORDON PUGH

We need to save the Arctic not because of the polar bears, and not because it is the most beautiful ...
LEWIS GORDON PUGH

The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very un...
LEWIS GORDON PUGH

When I was born, the world's population was 3.5 billion. There are now 6.8 billion people on the...
LEWIS GORDON PUGH

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn'...
EMERSON M. PUGH

Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer an...
LEWIS GORDON PUGH

On my second swim at Deception Island, the water was very clear and I was looking at hundreds of wha...
LEWIS GORDON PUGH

Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was m...
LEWIS GORDON PUGH

Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.
LEWIS GORDON PUGH

Of all the creatures in the world that really frighten me - the hyena in Africa, the great white sha...
LEWIS GORDON PUGH

I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does no...
LEWIS GORDON PUGH

The days of exploration of Shackleton and Scott are long gone. Everything has been climbed, crossed,...
LEWIS GORDON PUGH

The problem with climate change is that it's quite complicated for the ordinary person to unders...
LEWIS GORDON PUGH

My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something th...
J. J. WATT

No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short tur...
J. J. WATT

When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a rela...
J. J. WATT

I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that&...
J. J. WATT

Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professiona...
J. J. WATT

If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He'...
J. J. WATT

Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out ...
J. J. WATT

I get a lot of letters that say, 'I'm a normal, down-to-earth girl. I love to cook, and I lo...
J. J. WATT

My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on the...
J. J. WATT

If you're going to nap, make sure you have a proper chunk of time blocked out. I'm not one o...
J. J. WATT

I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I w...
J. J. WATT

When it comes down to that moment, when it's me against you, you know in your head whether you w...
J. J. WATT

You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give ev...
J. J. WATT

I ate a whole 20-inch pizza by myself one time.
J. J. WATT

A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it...
J. J. WATT

I'll fight a bear, but I don't like spiders. I'm not a fan of those.
J. J. WATT

I never want to let a day go by without having done something to get a little better.
J. J. WATT

There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face jus...
J. J. WATT

I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
J. J. WATT

People always ask, 'Man, why don't you come out and enjoy it? Why don't you celebrate? W...
J. J. WATT

A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ...
J. J. WATT

If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you...
J. J. WATT

I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.
J. J. WATT

Midi is my hobby.
J. J. JOHNSON

There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the l...
J. J. JOHNSON

I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood...
J. J. JOHNSON

Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've ...
J. J. JOHNSON

We have this obsession with broken homes. Everyone wants to find a problem with it, but not me. I ha...
J. J. FIELD

You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows...
J. J. FIELD

The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.
J. J. FIELD

The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage...
J. J. ABRAMS

I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
J. J. ABRAMS

I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
J. J. ABRAMS

I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
J. J. ABRAMS

When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid t...
J. J. ABRAMS

People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be su...
J. J. ABRAMS

The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
J. J. ABRAMS

I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, ...
J. J. ABRAMS

I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.
J. J. ABRAMS

Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
J. J. ABRAMS

Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
J. J. ABRAMS

I don't think I have a signature.
J. J. ABRAMS

I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginat...
J. J. ABRAMS

I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the ...
J. J. ABRAMS

I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a...
J. J. ABRAMS

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end...
J. J. ABRAMS

When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
J. J. ABRAMS

You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
J. J. ABRAMS

To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
J. J. ABRAMS

I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.
J. J. ABRAMS

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
J. J. ABRAMS

It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
J. J. ABRAMS

When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and t...
J. J. ABRAMS

Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles ...
J. J. ABRAMS

You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
J. J. ABRAMS

When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics an...
J. J. WATT

I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
J. J. WATT

There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
J. J. PROCTER

If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every si...
J. J. WATT

I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and ener...
J. J. WATT

What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
J. J. WATT

I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
J. J. ABRAMS

Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
J. J. FURNAS

What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so exci...
J. J. ABRAMS

My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice pres...
J. J. WATT

I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I th...
J. J. WATT

What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically...
J. J. ABRAMS

With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
J. J. ABRAMS

You can find just about everything on my iPod from Eminem to Zac Brown to Justin Timberlake to One D...
J. J. WATT

My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to p...
J. J. WATT

When you're in the National Football League, and you get this window where all eyes are on you, ...
J. J. WATT

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing ...
J. J. ABRAMS

I Googled 'What do rich people buy?' Because I don't feel like a rich person, and I don&...
J. J. WATT

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that ...
J. J. ABRAMS

It's hard to understand the life that I live and rationalize some of the things that I do. I don...
J. J. WATT

In the off-season, I train twice a day, five times a week with my trainer. Then, there's always ...
J. J. WATT

The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinis...
J. J. WATT

You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, ...
J. J. ABRAMS

I love the Stanley Cup playoffs.
J. J. WATT

There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappea...
J. J. GREENE

I'm a fast writer.
J. J. ABRAMS

There are games where I go a whole game without saying a word. There are games where I'm talking...
J. J. WATT

It's literally, if I'm not working out, I eat the whole time I'm not working out. It'...
J. J. WATT

It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
J. J. WATT

I work on holidays. I work on birthdays. I work on New Year's. I work. I keep my ears to the str...
JUICY J

I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listen...
J. COLE

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My mo...
J. COLE

You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you...
J. COLE

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, ...
J. COLE

Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it e...
J MASCIS

I play a Fender Jazzmaster and three stacks and a combo, two old Marshall Plexis and a Hiwatt combo ...
J MASCIS

'No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around.
J MASCIS

You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at.
J MASCIS

I was just reading about Paul Simon in 'Uncut', and it was fascinating. I never think about ...
J MASCIS

People have to do what they want to do.
J MASCIS

All labels are offensive in some way.
J MASCIS

Yeah, you know, I'm always into cassette. At least they seem to be the longest-lasting medium we...
J MASCIS

I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.
J MASCIS

It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess t...
J MASCIS

I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
J MASCIS

I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate t...
J MASCIS

I've never liked rehearsing too much.
J MASCIS

When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
J MASCIS

Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
J MASCIS

It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play reall...
J MASCIS

I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees.
J MASCIS

The chips are in production, the machines aren't. So we've got a little bit of work left to ...
J ALLARD

We're going to do something that's really unprecedented in the industry by launching the con...
J ALLARD

Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
J ALLARD

Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.
J ALLARD

When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket.
J ALLARD

I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real har...
J ALLARD

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.
J. COLE

I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the mus...
J. COLE

One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot ...
J. COLE

I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's w...
J. COLE

College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess ...
J. COLE

I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. ...
J. COLE

I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't ser...
J. COLE

I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never...
J. COLE

I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in...
J. COLE

Anything I do, I want to do it well.
J. COLE

I've never taken the steps to be 'successful': I've never had a manager or signed to...
J. TILLMAN

I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself a...
J. TILLMAN

You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I us...
J. TILLMAN

I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would ...
J. TILLMAN

My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of th...
J. TILLMAN

I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was k...
J. TILLMAN

I think that providing obstructions in the live setting is when you get something that actually mean...
J. TILLMAN

I play sad bastard music. For the money.
J. TILLMAN

There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
J. TILLMAN

Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angr...
J. TILLMAN

I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's ...
J. TILLMAN

With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be ...
J. TILLMAN

I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff...
J. TILLMAN

When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that...
J. TILLMAN

I've been writing a lot about my encounter with love. Which is the white stag as far as songwrit...
J. TILLMAN

Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
J. TILLMAN

It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
J. TILLMAN

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