"In America, there's this type of expectation of just-add-water celebrity, this type of, "Of course you found me; we're all going to be famous for 15 minutes," sort of Paris-Hilton-ization of society."

-- Kehinde Wiley

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“Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.”
“It was a lot to get used to, especially in warm-ups with the wind all over the place. As the meet went on it steadied out, so I was able to get some good looks to go back and train from.”
“That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.”
“I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.”
“The worst lies of all are the ones we tell ourselves. They are the most damaging.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“You have problems, you think drink helps, then you have two problems.”
“If you do a joke that's really old, then what happens is people on Reddit and Twitter just go, 'Real original, you're just doing old jokes!' But bands do it all the time.”
“But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.”

Source : Alan Paton (2011). “Too Late The Phalarope”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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