"Every time you pick up an instrument, it's not always out of necessity - for a certain kind of person, it's a choice."

-- Robin Pecknold

#Choices Quotes #Kind Quotes

“When you have half of Caironese in slums, when you don't have clean water, when you don't have a sewer system, when you don't have electricity, and on top of that you live under one of the most repressive regimes right now... Well, put all that together, and it's a ticking bomb. It's not of a question of threat; it is question of looking around at the present environment and making a rational prognosis.”
“Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.”
“I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.”
“Decide that life is good and you are special. Decide to enjoy today. Decide that you will live life to the fullest now, no matter what. Trust that you will change what needs changing, but also decide that you're not going to put off enjoying life just because you don't have everything you want now. Steadfastly refuse to let anything steal your joy. Choose to be happy...and you will be.”
“To me, the process of writing is just reading what I've written and - like running your hand over one of those mod glass stovetops to find where the heat is - looking for where the energy is in the prose, then going in the direction of that. It's an exercise in being open to whatever is there.”
“It is clear that the nations of the world now can only rise and fall together. It is not a question of one nation winning at the expense of another. We must all help one another or all perish together.”
“There's music for when you're sad or happy or in love; there's music for every moment in life.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously”

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