"I hate the word mentor, the professionalization of friendships between generations. I just feel like the fact of friendship is the thing we all adored, like the younger befriends or reaches out to their hero, and for me, whenever you meet some younger person, who has a fire in their gut, a way of being in the world, it excites you."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Eileen Myles

#Hate Quotes #Hero Quotes #Fire Quotes

“I have written my name on the far side of the sky.”
“It really doesn’t matter how the manager is. If you make a mistake and the manager is calm, you still feel terrible for making that mistake. It helps to have a manager who can be cool but as an individual you tend to be in control of your own emotions.”

Source : Interview with Chris Leo Moynihan, uk.askmen.com. April 8, 2012.
“I've been living for 17 years, and I've noticed human relations is the most difficult thing to understand...”
“True encounter with Christ liberates something within us, a power we did not know we had, a capacity to grow and change.”
“When the doubters tell you it can't be done and all kind of tragedies will come your way, I say nonsense. If you can get to the very root of who you are and make something happen from it, my sense tells me you are going to surprise yourself.”
“The crew members for 'The Price Is Right' at night are the same guys who work 'Y&R' during the day. It's even in the same studio. I've been in the place for 15 years. So all the faces at 'The Price Is Right' are familiar.”
“I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.”
“I always see guys get all, like, flexed on other people, trying to show off that they are tough, and it is just, like, no girl really likes that.”

Source : Interview with Teena Apeles, www.askmen.com. January 10, 2012.

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