"Everything you do is challenging, hopefully, because if it's not, it's boring."

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Ry Cooder

#Challenges Quotes #Boring Quotes #Hopefully Quotes

“Everybody loses the thing that made them.”

Source : "Fictional character: Hushpuppy". "Beasts of the Southern Wild", www.imdb.com. 2012.
“Start with yourself.Â Only if you change can the world change.Â We are just taking it a little bit further.Â Not only do you start with yourself, but always remember others.”
“Most musicals are informed by very rigid archetypes. If you get a very sophisticated mind writing them, you sense something else, but it's a folk-art form, really, at its best. At different times I've tried to push against it as much as I possibly could, but ultimately it is a folk-art form.”

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“The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.”
“Living New York, everyone has a million hustles, so I was doing party promoting, working the doors at parties, doing that whole nightlife thing.”
“The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism should try to speed justice.”
“We cannot look to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.”
“If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart.”

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