"Ivy [Wilkes] does exhibit a certain impatience at the beginning of the book [The Dissemblers]. She doesn't want to wait through years of hard work and insignificance to make her mark on the art world. Part of her growth is in realizing - even embracing - that the process of art is more important than the product or the recognition."

-- Liza Campbell

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“It is such an amazing moment when people realize what they are and what they can be, and they start putting themselves out into the world. I think you can see it in people when it's happening. They look different.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.”
“Strength doesn't come from what you do, strength is from who you are.”
“When I was growing up, we didn't have this super-skinny, flawless image to compete with. I find it unfortunate that young women may look at those images and think that is the ideal of beauty. It can cause a lot of problems and self-esteem issues if we don't remind girls that being healthy and exactly who you are is the main thing. I'm grateful I didn't grow up with those images.”
“Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court.”
“blind wantons like the gulls who scream And rip the edge off any ideal or dream.”

Source : Louis MacNeice (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.42, Faber & Faber
“Whenever I get depressed, I raise my hemlines. If things don't change, I am bound to be arrested.”
“But who are we, really? Just a bundle of good genes and bad genes mixed with good habits and bad habits. And since there's no gene for coolness or confidence, then being uncool and unconfident are just bad habits, which can be changed with enough guidance and will power.”

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