"I was very, very sick when I was growing up in Russia. The ambulance constantly came to our house. I had horrible asthma that is easily treated in America, but they didn't even have inhalers back in Russia."

-- Gary Shteyngart

#Growing Up Quotes #Russia Quotes #America Quotes

“To get my sound in the studio, I double guitar tracks, and when it gets to the lead parts, the rhythm drops out, just like it's live. I'm very conscious of that.”
“It doesnt matter how many people vote, only who counts them.”
“By the very fact of public life, one seems to lose humanity in people's eyes.”
“It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.”
“I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.”
“I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African.”
“As cheesy as it sounds, I feel like I do write a lot, not necessarily for a message to be taken away. I feel like it is a little bit egotistical to be like, "I hope they are a better person after listening to my song."”
“I'll talk. You'll listen.”

Source : Bruce Nauman, Emma Dexter, Tate Modern (Gallery) (2004). “Bruce Nauman: raw materials”, Tate Gallery Pubn

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