"I normally shun the spotlight, but I don't mind being the platform."

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Kay Yow

#Mind Quotes #Spotlight Quotes #Platforms Quotes

“For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable.”

Source : Ken MacLeod (2012). “Learning The World: A novel of first contact”, p.48, Hachette UK
“Bad Girl!" She chided. "I'm pretty sure Boris is a boy," I said. "Oh, I know," Mrs. Basil E. assured me. "I just like to keep him confused," Then she and Boris headed off with my future.”
“I think it's important to have a blend just as we need to have by the way a mix of different opera companies and different arts companies.”
“I am in the prime of my senility.”
“I'm totally crazy, I know that. I don't say that to be a smartass, but I know that that's the very essence of what makes my work good. And I know my work is good. Not everybody likes it, that's fine. I don't do it for everybody. Or anybody. I do it because I can't not do it.”
“A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.”
“Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don't realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it.”
“Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.”

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