"Be willing to get fired for a good idea."

-- Spike Jonze

#Ideas Quotes #Design Quotes #Willing Quotes

“I changed the course of my life, from the rigidity of mathematics and the corporate rhythm to a more bohemian world.”
“I like doing things that are very wildly different. I find that the meat and vegetables of being an actor is doing things that are completely different, all the time.”

Source : "Exclusive: James Purefoy Talks IRONCLAD and JOHN CARTER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 2, 2011.
“Cinderella was such a dork. She left behind her glass slipper at the ball and then went right back to her step-monster's house. It seems to me she should have worn the glass slipper always, to make herself easier to find. I always hoped that after the prince found Cinderella and they rode away in their magnificent carriage, after a few miles she turned to him and said, "Could you drop me off down the road please? Now that I've finally escaped my life of horrific abuse, I'd like to see something of the world, you know?... I'll catch back up with you later, Prince, once I've found my own way.”
“I think the power of image is in mystery - I endlessly create mysteries, by way of this dystopian message, to initiate intrigue.”
“the fear of fat works ... because it's being manipulated in us to enforce class divisions, racisms, womyn-hatred. And we give it the room to work because it's so close to us, it's our own bodies, that we don't see it as coming from outside ourselves, we don't name it for the weapon it is.”
“I'm not comfortable holidaying in other people's poverty.”

Source : Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.
“And if someone felt that his life had been an utter failure, and that he himself was only one among millions of wholly unimportant people who could be replaced as easily as broken windowpanes, he would go and pour out his heart to Momo. And, even as he spoke, he would come to realize by some mysterious means that he was absolutely wrong: that there was only one person like himself in the whole world, and that, consequently, he mattered to the world in his own particular way. Such was Momo's talent for listening.”
“Our dearest hopes in pangs are born, The kingliest Kings are crown'd with thorn.”

Source : Gerald Massey (1855). “The Ballad of Babe Christabel: With Other Lyrical Poems”, p.138

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