"I just like dealing with scientists for awhile and then going over and dealing with musicians for awhile. They both have qualities that kind of counterbalance each other."

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Source : "Shearwater". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. April 24, 2007.

Jonathan Meiburg

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“I grew up going to musicals with my mom here in New York, going to Broadway. I used to be in musicals in high school.”

Source : "Without Her Happy Hookers". Interview with Sharon Van Etten, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 27, 2015.
“The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.”
“Yes, Hackney has got more expensive, but so has rest of London”
“If we want to talk about the coarsening of the culture, I hope you devote a whole two hours for it and I would be happy to be a guest, but I'll also offer up some other guests. I don't appreciate many of the things that are said in our political discourse, I don't appreciate many of the things that are said on social media. You [Anderson Cooper] and I are attacked every single day, I'm sure.”
“Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.”
“The professor husband of a friend of mine has likened children to the insane. I often think of it. He says that children live on the edge of madness, that their behavior, apparently unmotivated, shares the same dream logic as crazy people's. I see what he means, and because I've learned to be patient with children, to tease out the logic that's always somewhere there, and irrefutable once explained,”

Source : Claire Messud (2013). “The Woman Upstairs”, p.18, Vintage
“I peered deeper and found my soul. A little tattered and with some holes, but there all the same. It had always been there, I realized with shock.”
“There's nothing in the world that breeds success like success.”

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