"I've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song."

-- Dan Bejar

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“We went to Comic-Con and there were people dressed up as the characters. There's a whole canon of Ninjago history that I didn't even know about until the process of making the movie had started. Especially at Comic-Con, I realized that people really, really care about this, and I hope they like it because it's meaningful to them. It did actually change my feelings about it.”
“It is not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You should also have an open mind at the right time.”

Source : "My Brain Is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos". Book by Bruce Schechter, 1998.
“Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.”
“If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.”
“I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.”
“Imagism was a reductio ad absurdum of one or two tendencies of romanticism, such a beautifully and finally absurd one that it is hard to believe it existed as anything but a logical construction; and what imagist found it possible to go on writing imagist poetry? A number of poets have stopped writing entirely; others, like recurring decimals, repeat the novelties they commeced with, each time less valuably than before. And there are surrealist poetry, and political poetry, and all the othe refuges of the indigent.”
“I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring the customs and attitudes of the county I'm using for their setting.”
“If a Latina falls in love with someone who is insecure, it can be a nightmare.”

Source : "Sofia Vergara Gives Men Tips on Landing Latina Women" By Alexandra J. Gratereaux, www.foxnews.com. March 19, 2012.

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