"I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me."

--

Vikram Seth

#Choose Me Quotes #Subjects Quotes

“I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium.”
“A good martial artist does not become tend but ready, not thinking but jet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come.”
“You make a choice to win and you win”

Source : "Charlie Sheen Sets His Sights on Sox". Boston Dirt Dogs Interview with, bostondirtdogs.boston.com. March 8, 2011.
“Sometimes we have to go deep inside ourselves to solve our problems”
“Freud articulated the standard opinion when he asked with supposed seriousness, 'What does a woman want?'... Today the question that is the yeast in the social dough is, 'What do men want?”
“The great enemy of creativity is fear. When we're fearful, we freeze up - like a nine-year-old who won't draw pictures, for fear everybody will laugh. Creativity has a lot to do with a willingness to take risks. Think about how children play. They run around the playground, they trip, they fall, they get up and run some more. They believe everything will be all right. They feel capable; they let go. Good businesspeople behave in a similar way: they lose $15 million, gain $20 million, lose $30 million and earn it back. If that isn't playing, I don't know what is!”
“Never to despise in myself what I have been taught to despise. Nor to despise the other. Not to despise the it. To make this relation with the it: to know that I am it.”

Source : Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.138, Northwestern University Press
“The problem for me is that I just don't often come across material that speaks to me and my TV education. Before we all had DirectTV and Netflix and Amazon, there's literally 15 years where I saw nothing. Now, I get the pleasure of binge-watching, so now I feel like I'm much more in a TV state of mind, because I binge-watched so many incredible TV shows that now I'm actually a little bit more excited about working in the space.”

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