"Everything that happens is designed to awaken us. Everything."

-- Leonard Jacobson

“People come out to rough me up because they think I'm not going to play well. And maybe when I was in my teen years it worked well. But I'm used to it now.”
“Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.”
“I just think that pop music is very interesting in how it can reach so many people. I like that I can tell stories and I just wanted to be heard more, I guess. That's why it's pop, but in my mind I don't really view my music as pop, I don't really view it as anything. I just look at it as a picture, I like visuals.”
“All my life I've wanted to see London. [...] I wanted to see London the way old people want to see home before they die.”

Source : "The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street".
“Local casting is just something I love doing.”

Source : "Beasts of the Southern Wild: 'I didn't expect people to like it'". Interview with Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.
“I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good.”
“The dreams you craft at the level of your soul are very different from goals, which are tangible, measurable and set the future.”
“And as Dad said to me, 'You can't always stop people from being mean. But you can stop them from making you mean.”

Source : Mike Mason (2009). “The Blue Umbrella: A Novel”, p.192, David C Cook

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