"In America they have to know just what you are-- novelist, poet, playwright... Well, I've been all of them... I think poems and novels and stories spring from the same seed. It's not like, say, playing polo and knitting."

-- Robert Penn Warren

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“The head sculptor, who became a mentor to me, said that the most important thing he'd ever learned was that you have to figure out what your number-one passion is and throw everything into that. And that if you didn't do that, then you're not really serving your purpose in the world, because you're not going to put that extra effort in. And I knew I loved music, so I just quit and decided to pursue it.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Death, the final, triumphant lover.”
“Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecterâ€™s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held together by blank plaster. Other rooms hold sound and motion, great snakes wrestling and heaving in the dark and lit in flashes. Pleas and screaming fill some places on the grounds where Hannibal himself cannot go. But the corridors do not echo screaming, and there is music if you like.”
“Some people are really good at their jobs, some people are really bad.”

Source : "'Veep's' Anna Chlumsky on politics and her 'My Girl' fame". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.cnn.com. April 27, 2012.
“There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment.”
“I'm extremely organized. The more things I have to work on and can bounce back and forth between, the more energized I am.”
“Not the old, not the new, but the necessary.”
“If I was a billionaire, I'd be smart with my money.”

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