"Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded."

-- Laurie Anderson

#Reality Quotes #Special Quotes #Kind Quotes

“It's businesses versus big government. We don't need big government. We need a more efficient, lean government, and that's exactly the kind of government we intend to deliver.”
“Perfect self-expression will never be labor, but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play.”
“We are always in the space in-between... all the spaces where you are not actually at home. You haven't arrived yet.... This is where our mind is the most open. We are alert, we are sensitive, and destiny can happen. We do not have any barriers and we are vulnerable. Vulnerability is important. It means we are completely alive and this is an extremely important space. This is for me the space from which my work generates.”
“The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.”
“Remember that failure is part of the process of successful running. Performance is a roller coaster; to think otherwise is irrational and will cause you much stress and discouragement. Lighten up on yourself. Ups and downs can beÂ expected. The performance of most serious runners fluctuates by the week. You win some, you lose some; some days you're hot, some days you're not. Don't fight with yourself when failure, the teacher, pays an unexpected visit. Open up to learning from it.”
“So the guy that we're really targeting our system at this year is one of the guys who brought a 16bit system three or four years ago and has pretty much had it with that, and he's ready to buy something new.”
“We didn't come all the way up here to compromise for no more than weâ€™d gotten here.Â We didn't come all this way for no two seats, 'cause all of us is tired.”
“My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.”

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