"Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture."

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Maya Lin

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“The misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it.”
“When I was very young my mother sang to me at bedtime and my dad would often play the banjo or fiddle in the evening. I knew music was important and central to everything, most particularly it had a powerful healing value and created a sense of peace and security. This stood out to me as I always felt the world was precarious and dangerous, and music supplied those moments of real peace and safety.”
“I call myself a FFP: former fat person, and when you're an FFP, you will always see in yourself what people used to bully you for.”

Source : "Kelly Osbourne's DOs and DON'Ts of Body Confidence" By Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. April 2, 2012.
“Nobody paved the way for me, Jesus paved the way for me,”
“In Prodigal Son, Christine Sutton has penned a tight, brutally honest portrait of a psychopath reminiscent of Theodore Sturgeon's 'Some of Your Blood'. This dark descent into the broken mind of Timothy Robert Shively will send chills down your back. Every word rings true, and every page is dark with menace. Do yourself a favor and pick this one up right now. You can thank me later.”
“Remember: when people tell you somethingâ€™s wrong or doesnâ€™t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.”
“Time stoops to no man's lure.”

Source : Algernon Charles Swinburne (1866). “Laus Veneris, and other poems and ballads. [Orig. publ. as Poems and ballads]. Author's ed”, p.192
“My great concern for you in life is not that you will fail, but that you will succeed in doing the wrong things.”

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