"Words are one thing, deeds are quite another."

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Ivan Bunin

“An artist's sensitivity to criticism is, at least in part, an effort to keep unimpaired the zest, or confidence, or arrogance, which he needs to make creation possible; or an instinct to climb through his problems in his own way as he should, and must.”
“Knowledge is power as well as fame.”

Source : Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.410
“In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages.”
“They tell me that all men are equal in God's eyes, this player (Messi) makes you seriously think about those words.”
“I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school in Dayton, Ohio. I painted for three years, and then show business took hold.”
“If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.”
“Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained.”

Source : Robert Warshow (1962). “The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre & Other Aspects of Popular Culture”, p.98, Harvard University Press
“Having had been not so well traveled as a kid, as most teenagers aren't, I always thought, "Okay I'm going to focus my energy on rap and the rap game, because that's how I'm going to be able to pay rent and pay off my school loans." But seeing the reaction with this whole gay rap situation has made me not want to play into it at all anymore and just make whatever.”

Source : "Le1f’s Riot Movement". Interview with Shayne Oliver, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 9, 2015.

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