"Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else. What is the other text, the original? I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining into the boat... where in this metaphor they die and get canned and eaten in sandwiches."

-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Art Quotes #Writing Quotes #Swings Quotes

“You see, my father was a Catholic priest, Greek Orthodox, but I think he started out as a Jew, then he became a Catholic priest.”
“I don't know [whether] if I didn't get paid, or my career didn't keep going where it goes, if I would keep doing music.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I got really passionate about music with early Smiths and Joy Division. And New Order, Sonic Youth, Cramps...kind of right across the board, whatever fell underground. Kraftwerk...it was really mixed. Quite confusing, I suppose, but it just felt good.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“My first job was an AFI short film, Chasing Daylight, when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that never aired.”
“Robb: Uncle Benjen said to send you to the stables if I saw you. Jon: I have one more farewell to make. Robb: Then I haven't seen you.”
“I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones.”
“Try to establish the value of a company.”

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