"Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a certain type of character."

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Source : Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2005.

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#Character Quotes #Independent Quotes #Artist Quotes

“People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.”
“Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought."”
“I just know that something good is going to happen. I don't know when - but just saying it could even make it happen.”

Source : Oral Roberts (1994). “Unleashing the Power of Praying in the Spirit”, Harrison House Incorporated
“Buffalo rib-eye steaks, on the grill, is my favorite meal, seriously. It has less fat, more vitamins and more protein than beef. It is wonderful. Look, it was what the Indians ate, and they were very healthy. It's very good meat.”

Source : Source: lasentinel.net
“Marx, if he had come back alive would have said Mao's his boy.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at first; but when once objectified I can torture and poke and scrape and pat it till it offends me no more.”
“You're never too old to be young, and never too young to be old.”
“For her I changed pebbles into diamonds, shoes into mirrors, I changed glass into water, I gave her wings and pulled birds from her ears and in her pockets she found the feathers, I asked a pear to become a pineapple, a pineapple to become a lightbulb, a lightbulb to become the moon, and the moon to become a coin I flipped for her love...”

Source : Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.230, W. W. Norton & Company

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