"I was able to notice in a very early stage, there were discrepancies between the people who are writing the songs and discrepancies about the self that I was writing about. I was feeling that there were all these different people, both writing the record and having the record being written about them, even though ostensibly it was me sitting down and documenting a series of life experiences. Part of that, when I recognized this unconscious thing I was doing, was about these spaces, about these gaps."

-- Owen Pallett

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #People Quotes

“If you will scoff at language study how, save in terms of language, will you scoff?”

Source : Mario Pei (1965). “The Story of Language”
“Know that all healing forces are within, not without! The applications from without are merely to create within a coordinating mental and spiritual force.”

Source : "The Edgar Cayce Remedies". Book by William A. McGarey, p.16, 1983.
“But I'll never be one of those women who feel that they always have to wear earrings and aren't properly dressed without them.”
“I didn't know Michael Heizer until I was preparing for my "Earthworks" show in 1968, and somebody called and told me to look at his work. Heizer had already made land art before any of the others and was deeply into it. But he was very young and working out West, so I wasn't aware of his work until he came and showed it to me.”
“What I don't want to do is to go and buy a bunch of exotic-looking drums and set up an Afrikanische Musik in New York City.”

Source : Steve Reich (2002). “Writings on Music, 1965-2000”, p.73, Oxford University Press
“There is only one principle, and this is Good. There is no principle of evil. If there were a principle of evil, evil would be positive and not negative, and therefore could never be overcome, because it would be eternal and unchanging.”
“I don't need to play villains or anything like that to show people that I'm different. I just want to be a part of stories that hold up over time. Too much of this stuff is forgettable. When it comes to being an actor, I don't know how good I am but I always say this, I've never been the problem in the cast. I just want to keep that streak up and do more projects in the future, that's it.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Jaleel White On Who Made the Potatoe Salad?". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. November 3, 2006.
“Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.”

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