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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.
The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.
Derek Harold Richard Barton, Scientist (1918) |
Frank Cady, Actor (1915) |
Sid Caesar, Actor (1922) |
Neko Case, Musician (1970) |
Peter Maxwell Davies, Composer (1934) |
David R. Ellis, Director (1952) |
Mark Foley, Politician (1954) |
Wendell H. Ford, Politician (1924) |
Alfred Jarry, Writer (1873) |
Michael Johns, Politician (1964) |
Andre Derain, Artist (1954) |
Joseph Hall, Clergyman (1656) |