"Keep growing. Stay awake. Beware of gurus. Keep a low overhead."

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Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

Joan Larkin

#Growing Quotes #Guru Quotes #Lows Quotes

“I think we all have a certain number of "coming of age" songs, and then a writer has to expand and grow into more varied and specific themes. And the music industry is, like Jawbreaker says, "selling kids to other kids," so it makes sense that those early songs in a writer's life are often the ones that catch people's ears, and later work is more difficult and less immediate.”

Source : Source: www.independent.co.uk
“It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers.”

Source : "Chaka Khan records song for Trayvon Martin" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2012.
“It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have got it.”
“I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.”
“I don't want every fan; I'm interested in fans interested in quality work, authentic archetype depictions.”

Source : "Romany Malco Chats w/ S&A About “Think Like A Man,” Picking Projects, Black Cinema & More!". Interview with Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. May 7, 2012.
“Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.”
“It is the fertile hallucination that makes paint so compelling. Paint is like the numerologist's numbers, always counting but never adding up, always speaking but never saying anything rational, always playing at being abstract but never leaving the clotted body.”

Source : James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.49, Routledge
“Astronomers do not commonly use Venereal, in favor of the less contagious-sounding Venutian. Blame the medical community, who snatched the word long before astronomers had any good use for it. I suppose you can't blame the doctors. Venus is the goddess of beauty and love, so she ought to be the goddess of its medical consequences.”

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