"I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them."

-- A. Scott Berg

#People Quotes #Interviews Quotes #Subjects Quotes

“Money is both a means and a means to an end.”
“People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.”

Source : Jackson Pollock (2011). “American Letters: 1927-1947”, p.16, Polity
“Nothing else in all life is such a maker of joy and cheer as the privilege of doing good.”
“For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.”
“We in the west walked away from Afghanistan at the end of the cold war and left it as a country devastated socially and armed to the teeth. If we do that again there will be consequences.”
“Artists who believe they control everything control what they know. Artists who allow outside forces to intervene are like canoes going down rapids. The rocks are there. If you fight them, you fly off the bow. If you allow the current to take you, you can pass through swimmingly. It is a rare gift at every bend.”
“Jem put the full force of himself into each smile, so that he seemed to be smiling with his eyes, his heart, his whole being.”
“Sometimes I think that love is one big fairy tale. I wonder if people who say they are in love, if â€“ really â€“ theyâ€™ve just talked themselves into it. They want it so badly, they kind of make it happen. They fake it until they start believing their own story. Maybe thatâ€™s just sour grapes or something. Maybe because it doesnâ€™t happen to me, I donâ€™t want to think it happens to anyone else.”

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