"Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence."

-- Orson Scott Card

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“I learned at an early age that every breath that we take is borrowed. We need to be thankful for our life and never take it for granted.”
“If you're going to buy pasta, you should buy dry pasta. If you're going to make it you can make the real thing, but you shouldn't buy fresh pasta.”
“In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear into the greater experience of viewing the work. So that you forget you are looking at a painting, or a photograph.”
“It was never something I had in my mind to do â€“ a show on Nickelodeon, let alone being consider a teen idol. Itâ€™s odd. I remember my mom picking up a magazine with me on the cover and saying, â€˜You donâ€™t know how weird this is for me.â€™ I told her, â€˜You donâ€™t know how weird it is for me!â€™”
“Irrational beliefs are culturally accepted delusions.”
“More than anything, I think the best thing you can do as an artist is just stay as true to yourself as possible and hope that your fan base will appreciate that.”

Source : "Primus' Les Claypool". Interview with John Semley, music.avclub.com. October 13, 2011.
“Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.”
“Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man.”

Source : Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.38, David R. Godine Publisher

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