"I never felt at home. I stuck outIn New York City, especially in Greenwich Village, down among the cranks and the misfits and the one-lungers and the has-beens and the might've beens and the would-bes and the never-wills and the God-knows-whats, I have always felt at home."

-- Joseph Mitchell

#New York Quotes #Home Quotes #Cities Quotes

“I sincerely believe that we not only have the right to know what is good and what is evil; we have the duty to acquire that knowledge if we hope to assume responsibility for our own lives and those of our children. Only by knowing the truth can we be set free.”
“If you do the same thing over and over again you cannot ever expect a different outcome.”
“My victory is when the audience buys a ticket to watch my film. I am extremely thrilled when they give it a thumbs-up.”
“When I sound real, I'm fake, and when I sound fake, I'm real.”
“I don't believe that less fortunate people should have to wait until a movie is released on public TV for free, while richer people get to see it months in advance.”
“I would just like say to you with all my heart is that most everybody I know who does interesting creative work, they went through a phase of years where they had really good taste and they could tell what they were making wasnâ€™t as good as they wanted it to be.”

Source : "Your product sucks" by Tristan Louis, www.businessinsider.com. March 11, 2012.
“Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
“I love my blocks of marble, always piling up in the yard like a flock of sheep.”

Source : Dame Barbara Hepworth (1970). “A Pictorial Autobiography”

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