"We are never more creative than when we are at odds with the world and there is nothing so artistically destructive as comfort. Princess Leia taught me that."

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Source : Simon Pegg (2010). “Nerd Do Well”, p.153, Random House

Simon Pegg

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“Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.”
“Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of alternate bass lines, suspensions, widely spaced voicings. Dfferent textures to get very warm chords. Sometimes you're setting up strange chords by placing a chord in front of it that's going to set it off like a diamond in a gold band. It's not just finding interesting chords, it's how you sequence them, like stringing together pearls on a string. ... Interesting chords will compel interesting melodies. It's very hard to write a boring melody to an interesting chord sequence.”
“I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfillment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.”
“From 1945 to 2003, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements fighting against intolerable regimes. In the process, the US bombed some 25 countries, caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair.”
“Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A good general chooses his battlefield.”
“[People] feel Washington doesn't understand their lives anymore, and they feel that even though Donald Trump might make a mistake with what he says from time to time, they see that as authenticity and maybe somebody who will truly pay attention to them, because they feel ignored.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Survey says: one more for the bad guys.”

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