"Any eyes on me - a late-night street sweeper, some dude texting in his parked car, the homeless guy talking to himself - make me feel uncomfortable when I skate. Everyone expects me to do certain things."

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Source : "Rodney Mullen Skates Central Park" by Alec Wilkinson, www.newyorker.com. November 26, 2012.

Rodney Mullen

#Eye Quotes #Night Quotes #Talking Quotes

“Delacroix , Wagner , Baudelaire all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the irresistible effect to intoxicate, or overwhelm. They looked to analysis to provide them with the keyboard on which to play, with certainty, on man's emotions, and they sought in abstract meditation they key to sure and certain action upon their subject man's nervous and psychic being.”
“I had a marvelously happy childhood.”
“There is no ideal length, but you develop a little interior gauge that tells you whether or not you're supporting the house or detracting from it. When a piece gets too long, the tension goes out of it. That wordÂ—tensionÂ—has an animal insistence for me. A piece of writing rises and falls with tension. The writer holds one end of the rope and the reader holds the other endÂ—is the rope slack, or is it tight? Does it matter to the reader what the next sentence is going to be?”
“the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.”

Source : Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.126, Wave Books
“Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.”
“Hadrian leapt to his feet. Royce was already up. â€œDonâ€™t bother,â€ Esrahaddon told them. â€œSheâ€™s dead, and thereâ€™s nothing you can do. The monster cannot be harmed by your weapons. Itâ€”â€ The two were out the door.”
“I found that a bit unfair. However, I did feel quite liberated when I left. I'm very grateful to the show - it revived a flagging career, but I'm glad to be away from it now.”
“That's why you and I had friction? God, I always thought it was 'cause, 'cause I fooled around with your daughter freshman year.”

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