"The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed."

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John Chamberlain

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“Again, our marriage problems are not really marriage problems. They are heart problems. They are God problems. Our lack of intimacy with God causes a void that we try to fill with the frailest of substitutes. Like wealth or pleasure. Like fame or respect. Like people. Like marriage.”
“Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow's grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.”
“I don't need to know how they make Coca-Cola. I think it tastes just fine not knowing what the ingredients are. I think there are some things that should be kept secret.”

Source : "Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015.
“I prefer more spicy food to your Italian to be fair.”

Source : Interview with Simon Burnton, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2010.
“While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.”
“Sure I do, and if someone paid you six-thousand dollars a game, you'd have fun as well.”
“Nature is seen by humans through a screen of beliefs, knowledge, and purposes, and it is in terms of their images of nature, rather than of the actual structure of nature, that they act. Yet, it is upon nature itself that they do act, and it is nature itself that acts upon them, nurturing or destroying them.”
“If a teacher wants to know something why doesn't she look it up herself instead of making we students do it? We benefit ourselves more by listening to her, after all she's the teacher!”

Source : Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.221, Open Road Media

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