"Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk."

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Source : Michael Chabon (2011). “Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands”, p.163, Open Road Media

Michael Chabon

#Risk Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Moments Quotes

“I've been a fan of Mads since the â€œCasino Royaleâ€ movie. I really sat up and paid attention to him. I was like, â€œWho is this motherf**ker?â€ Even his work in something as sort of popcorn as â€œClash of the Titans,â€ he brings a kind of danger and reality and he grounds it in such a way that you think, yes, I'm good to work with this guy. I should come back, just stay behind him. (Laughs) Our working relationship has been fantastic.”
“The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.”
“Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.”
“I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.”
“I've felt that dissatisfaction is the basis of progress. When we become satisfied in business, we become obsolete.”
“Everton are literally a bag of Revells.”
“Total surrender to the will of God actually is sacrificing oneself as a burnt offering to God. The proof of this state is dying to oneself, - to one's own opinions, wishes and feelings or tastes, in order to live by Divine intellect, in conformity with the Divine will and in partaking of God. In the forefront of this endeavor is our Lord and Savior. He surrendered the whole of Himself to God the Father, and us in Himself, 'For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones' (Eph. 5:30). So let us hasten in His footsteps?”
“Always he had wanted to tell somebody about his life, but when he had tried, his confidante had looked at him.”

Source : Zona Gale (1927). “Yellow gentians and blue”

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