"My idea of making time for myself is writing songs. I never stop beating myself up about trying to be productive, so I don't really like to do a lot of things other than write in my journal and write songs."

-- Lydia Loveless

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Trying Quotes

“You can go back and try to generalize, but then you end up saying things that all editors say about everything that ever gets published. Something about voice, about urgency, about actually having a story to tell.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I think that's why I gravitated toward slightly broader... ummm, more conceptual kinds of movies, Underworld and Van Helsing. That was as much as I could actually give. But you're actually more of an animated figure. It does go against the grain, as an actor.”
“Individualism is the self-affirmation of the individual self as individual self without regard to its participation in its world. As such it is the opposite of collectivism, the self affirmation of the self as part of a larger whole without regard to its character as an individual self.”
“I was once all by myself in a house on Fire Island. Where I compared the original cast recordings of two different versions of The Wild Party. A helicopter should have descended and taken me away to a gay penal colony. But of course, I was already there.”
“If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself”

Source : Alexander Sutherland Neill (1953). “The Free Child”
“I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it.”
“The New York book was a visual diary and it was also kind of personal newspaper. I wanted it to look like the news. I didnâ€™t relate to European photography. It was too poetic and anecdotal for meâ€¦ the kinetic quality of new york, the kids, dirt, madnessâ€”I tried to find a photographic style that would come close to it. So I would be grainy and contrasted and black. Id crop, blur, play with the negatives. I didnâ€™t see clean technique being right for New York. I could imagine my pictures lying in the gutter like the New York Daily News.”
“To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.”

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