"There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair."

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Source : Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. February 22, 2013.

Angel Olsen

#Expectations Quotes #Kind Quotes #Unfair Quotes

“Unfortunately, you don't get artist development anymore. Record companies have become a huge corporate thing. It used to be you'd meet someone [in the business] and they'd have a little history of music. Some people in the companies now don't even like music. It's just a job. So I miss the days when someone would go out on a limb and pick a band that was different. I just don't see that anymore. It's the same with the film industry.”
“POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a prosperity where they believe these to be unknown.”
“Stay away from philosophy, kids: it will ruin your mind.”
“I really practiced hard and got to a certain level of technical proficiency. I overcame some of my limitations. I was a hard-working, dedicated bassoonist, but I have to say I'm not a natural musician.”
“My coaching philosophy? Determine your players talents and give them every weapon to get the most from those talents.”
“I love hockey, and I don't love it for any other reason than when I get out there and play, I enjoy it.”
“Sometimes on the basketball court or on the football field, you enter this place called 'The Zone.' You're not supposed to acknowledge when you're in 'The Zone,' but when you are, you simply cannot be stopped.”

Source : Victor Cruz, Peter Schrager (2012). “Out of the Blue”, p.5, Penguin
“And if I were to ask myself from what literature we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans, and of the Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw the corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more comprehensive, more universal, in fact more truly human a life... again I should point to India.”

Source : Max Muller (1999). “India: What Can it Teach Us?”, p.24, Book Tree

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