"You don't think when you play music, you just try to play and be in it. It is the same for me when the writing is going really well. It's the same kind of feeling. I'm just in it. It's not the words, it's not the sentences, I'm not aware of it. Then it's good."

-- Karl Ove Knausgard

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Play Quotes

“We have to be plumbers, electricians, construction engineers, or workers, on the space station, but at the same time running a laboratory, being scientists, being the best laboratory assistants we can be. It's all in a bundle; it's very exciting, it's a lot of fun.”

Source : "Rocket To ISS Lifts Off With American, Russian, Canadian Astronauts" by Clara Moskowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2012.
“In order to achieve great things in your life, you have to be consistent in what you are doing.”

Source : "Smith has record in sight". Scott Ferrell, The Times, August 30, 2002.
“Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things. Feathers are superior to fur, even. They're so beautiful, and nature uses such amazing colors.”

Source : "Finding Your Religion With Bibhu". Interview with Alex Geana, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2011.
“I performed it all the way through for people. People would say, "We love you, we want to sign you," and then there'd always be one person who'd say, "He's just a producer."”
“From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a disturbing factor. It made things difficult for me when I started working as a director.”
“Our great country is rich and abundant in so many ways. It is totally unacceptable to me that we have children and families going hungry!”
“Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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