"It's like this when you fall hard for a musician. It's a crush with religious overtones. You listen to the songs and you memorize the words and the notes and this is a form of prayer. You attend the shows and this is the liturgy. You're interested in relics -- guitar picks, set lists, the sweaty napkin applied to His brow. You set up shrines in your room. It's not just about the music. It's about who you are when you listen to the music and who you wish to be and the way a particular song can bridge that gap, can make you feel the abrupt thrill of absolute faith."

Source : Steve Almond (2010). “Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us”, p.71, Random House

Steve Almond

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“He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.”

Source : Jess Walter (2012). “Beautiful Ruins: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins
“Every time I do a play, it's as if I've never done one before. I'm always confused. I always am convinced I'm going to be fired. I'm like, 'I don't remember how to act. I don't know how to do this.' And, it's just a very slow process, and then, all of a sudden, it's just there one day. I still don't understand how it happens.”

Source : "DIVA TALK: Chatting With Once Star Cristin Milioti". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. April 27, 2012.
“Most important, in order to find real happiness, you must learn to love yourself for the totality of who you are and not just what you look like.”

Source : Portia de Rossi (2010). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.302, Simon and Schuster
“It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen”
“If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth.”

Source : Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc
“Although the way ahead [for immunology] is full of pitfalls and difficulties, this is indeed an exhilarating prospect. There is no danger of a shortage of forthcoming excitement in the subject. Yet, as always, the highlights of tomorrow are the unpredictabilities of today.”
“There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you're doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of really do a number on your reasons for making music.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.”

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