"Painting is a kind of call and response. During the act of painting one is listening, paying attention to a self, a voice simultaneously recognizable and foreign."

-- Squeak Carnwath

#Self Quotes #Voice Quotes #Listening Quotes

“Hookers have to deliver on their promise... unlike politicians.”

Source : "Legends/ Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation". Documentary, Music, BBC Wales, March 2008.
“I used to think that prizes were damaging and divisive, until I got one. And now they seem sort of meaningful and real.”

Source : "Watching the Golden Globes". www.slate.com. January 16, 2007.
“If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment.”
“Let us remember that the Savior is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and there can be no greater promise than to know that if we are faithful and true, we will one day be safely encircled in the arms of His love (see D&C 6:20). He is always there to give encouragement, to forgive, and to rescue. Therefore, as we exercise faith and are diligent in keeping the commandments, we have nothing to fear from the journey.”
“If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.”

Source : "'To hell with Perry Mason'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2002.
“The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.”
“If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.”
“There is just this for consolation: an hour here or there, when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined , though everyone but children (and perhaps even they) knows these hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning, we hope, more than anything, for more. Heaven only knows why we love it so.”

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