"Any working cartoonist will tell you this, anybody who's working in a creative field: at some point, it's a job. You have deadlines. I think, for over a year, I refused to make them for publications, because I only wanted to make them when I wanted to make them. But at some point, I was like, "This is crazy, you have an opportunity to be a professional cartoonist."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

David Rees

#Jobs Quotes #Crazy Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“I tried to go to Kosovo to establish a statue to commemorate those who died during the wars, and to discuss moving on, so we could move into a new era. But I was banned from there.”
“The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.”

Source : FaceBook post by Warren Cuccurullo from Jun 19, 2014
“I was blessed with the talent. God gave me the gift to put words together and make popular songs.”
“I live now and only now, and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday.”
“I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.”

Source : "Featured Filmmaker: Bryan Singer". www.ign.com. December 9, 2002.
“The models we have, and the standards we are expected to maintain, come to us via heterosexuality as a normative state. Heterosexuality--whatever the current version of that concept happens to be--is unremarkable because it is the standard by which everything else is measured. That is heterosexual privilege.”
“My single pair of eyes Contain the universe they see; Their mirrored multiplicity Is packed into a hollow body Where I reflect the many, in my one.”

Source : Stephen Spender (2015). “New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.173, Faber & Faber
“Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished is, from the soul's point of view, entirely imaginary.”

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