"Some people want to feel comfortable when they're performing; I'm kind of the opposite."

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Guillermo E. Brown

#Opposites Quotes #People Quotes #Want Quotes

“Chickens have an uncanny sense of direction.”

Source : Daniel Pinkwater (2011). “Lizard Music”, p.46, New York Review of Books
“God lives in cozy homes. Happiness, which a cozy home can give you, is so divine on this Earth, you don't need anything more than that. God is unseen but His creation is known and seen. What is known and seen for you, if you cannot relate to that how can you relate to the unknown? If you can relate knowingly to your unknown thought, you can always find happiness. But you have to have nerves for it. You have to have a mental capacity for it, you have to have trained yourself, and this is the part of that training I have come to share with you.”
“Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.”
“Moses was a forgotten man in the wilderness, But God had Moses right where he wanted him and met him at a burning bush.”
“Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.”
“Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?”
“We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stoneâ€”crumbling in death rather than rotting, trapped inside an immobile prison of stone rather than reduced to immaterial souls like those that now rattled within our skulls. The moment passes. There is no point in regretting irreversible decisionsâ€”one has to live with them, and we try.”
“Songwriting is like fishing in a stream; you put in your line and hope to catch something. And I don't think anyone downstream from Bob Dylan ever caught anything.”

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