"It's art that's taught me to think and to write."

-- Andy Goldsworthy

#Art Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Man, you'd be surprised how much I'm learning - not only about myself, but about the musicians who came before me. You don't realize at first when you listen to Armstrong's records how great this man was and how hard that Hot Five music was to play. After the experience of reading and playing those parts, I have an even greater respect for Louis Armstrong than before”
“The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.”
“I was honestly never a huge school person.”
“Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation.”

Source : "The Too-Big House" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. June 21, 2011.
“The direct consequence is that we have to fight with each other in order to survive.”
“Do you miss being friends with Santangelo?" I ask her after the lights are out and we're almost asleep. "What makes you think were friends?" "Everything." I hear her yawn. "Being enemies with him is better." she tells me. There's a long pause and I think she's going to say something more but she doesn't and it's just silence for a long while.”
“I'm pro-life. I'm pro-gun. I'm pro-family. And I'm pro-business.”
“You know you're in a bad movie when the Catholic clergy is being played by Jews.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. December 22, 2008.

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