"The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It's so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that's where you start to cheat yourself - and your fans, in the end - because there's an inherent dishonesty in pandering and dishing up what everyone's expecting."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

The Edge

#Trying Quotes #Dishonesty Quotes #Popularity Quotes

“I find the term perfect child to be an oxymoron.”

Source : "Is Junie B. Jones Talking Trash?" by Anna Jane Grossman, www.nytimes.com. July 26, 2007.
“In my life, there have been people that I was convinced would be around forever, and yet, somehow they managed to drift away after a couple of years. Likewise there have been people who have begun as casual acquaintances but become more important with each passing year.”

Source : "My Journey With Farrah" by Alana Stewart, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2009.
“Unity should be the cornerstone of relations”
“I have nothing against women. As a matter of fact there's something about them that I love, but I just can't put my finger on it.”
“South Carolinians are strong, independently-minded people. At the end of the day, they make their own decisions. And I respect them for that. And I welcome that. And I told him that from the very beginning.”
“He had been to see Mrs. Erlich just before starting home for the holidays, and found her making German Christmas cakes. She took him into the kitchen and explained the almost holy traditions that governed this complicated cookery. Her excitement and seriousness as she beat and stirred were very pretty, Claude thought. She told off on her fingers the many ingredients, but he believed there were things she did not name: the fragrance of old friendships, the glow of early memories, belief in wonder-working rhymes and songs.”
“There is no one against us in this world but ourselves. You are against you. A failure to love, embrace, and accept yourself based on not a thing flows outwards and causes conflict. Love you for being alive, accept and embrace all of you, and where is the hate now? How can you hate another now? Where can conflict arise?”
“Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out.”

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