"……, but as I am a scholar I feel obliged to document what it is like here, most of the time, between the dramatic climaxes. In truth it is like this: You cannot imagine how time can be so still. It hangs. It weighs, and yet there is so little of it. It goes so slowly and it is so scarce. If I was writing this scene it would last a full 15 minutes. I would lie here and you would sit there."

-- Margaret Edson

#Lying Quotes #Writing Quotes #Littles Quotes

“I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends. They're only there because you're a celebrity or because they want to get something from you.”
“The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The inward journey is about finding your own fullness, something that no one else can take away.”
“I would like to be like Britney, but maybe better. But I don't wanna outshine her.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is important to remember that these are your Declining Years, in which you can jolly well decline to do what you don't feel like doing, unless not doing it would make you feel worse than doing it.”
“If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is a fossil of light and time.”
“Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.”
“My experience that undergirds that observation comes from punk, where people might have scraped together the money to be in the studio for an afternoon to make a record. Punk isn't a music that you think of as chance-based, but exigency has a lot to do with it.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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