"The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself. It's like being blind. You aren't less of a person, but you're missing out on wonderful things."

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Sandra Cisneros

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“It was a great test of my ability to work with... watercolors. And it was also a test of my patience; I needed to put myself in a completely disciplined position... I couldn't make mistakes.”
“What is the popular image of rock star? A rail-thin, overly-paid, narcissistic, average-talented individual who self-implodes in front of everybody, eternally having a party and who looks eternally youthful?”

Source : "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview With Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.
“It is easier not to speak a word at all than to speak more words than we should.”
“Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].”
“Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.”

Source : Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.430, Penguin
“I did about 10-12 national commercials and then got one line parts in things like 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and the show 'The Unit.' Got a little part in the movie 'Redbelt' by David Mamet and kept slowly grinding up and then started getting bigger parts in independents and getting noticed by Liz Meriwether.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.”
“You gotta understand: I'm a man with needs that needs fulfilling. And if you ain't with it, somebody else is willing.”

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