"some of us just don't want to be famous ... anonymity cannot be bought for any price, once you have lost it ..."

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Source : Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.235, A&C Black

Robyn Davidson

#Want Quotes #Fame Quotes #Lost Quotes

“Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.”
“If a girl starts out all casual with a guy and she doesn't tell him that she wants a relationship, it will never become a relationship. If you give the guy the impression that casual is okay with you, that's all he'll ever want. Be straight with him from the start. If he gets scared and runs away, he wasn't right for you.”
“We've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive. In the West, Heaven is placid and fluffy, and Hell is like the inside of a volcano. In many stories, both realms are governed by dominance hierarchies headed by gods or devils. Monotheists talked about the king of kings. In every culture we imagined something like our own political system running the Universe. Few found the similarity suspicious.”
“There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.”
“People elect the President for reasons that have nothing to do with his ability to be president.”
“Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.”
“At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: "Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say...”
“There is no formula to it because writing every song, for me, is a little journey. The first note has to lift you and make you go, 'What's this?' You play C, but why is it that one day it leads to G and it didn't yesterday? I don't know. It's everything. It's the walk you take in the morning, it's the night before, the meeting with people, landscapes, the chats, all of that evolves in some way into melody, but I'm not sure how it's going to happen. I'm dealing with the unknown all the time and that is exciting.”

Source : "Everyone Thinks I'm So Shockable". Interview with Neil McCormick, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 24, 2005.

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