"Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one."

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Landscape planners will have the opportunity to make sculptured roofscapes, so that cities appear to be verdant hills and valleys. Streets will become shady routes carved through the undergrowth. Roofs will become mountain tops. People will become ants.”

Source : Tom Turner (2014). “City as Landscape: A Post Post-Modern View of Design and Planning”, p.98, Taylor & Francis
“You will find ambiguity a great ally on your road to power. Give a sign of Slytherin on one day, and contradict it with a sign of Gryffindor the next; and the Slytherins will be enabled to believe what they wish, while the Gryffindors argue themselves into supporting you as well. So long as there is uncertainty, people can believe whatever seems to be to their own advantage. And so long as you appear strong, so long as you appear to be winning, their instincts will tell them that their advantage lies with you. Walk always in the shadow, and light and darkness both will follow.”
“The idea of performing some of Jack Skellington's songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas live for the very first time is immensely exciting.”

Source : "Tim Burton and Danny Elfman to collaborate on live concert" by Alice Vincent, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 14, 2013.
“I don't believe in getting something for nothing.”
“It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life.”
“I'm damn successful but I got here by not taking crap. I still don't take crap, so if anybody needs a champion, let it be me.”
“Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.”
“Disney was kind enough, thoughtful enough and believed enough in me, as a director, to wait for me to be available.”

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