"The more you learn, the less you fear."

--

Julian Barnes

“Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy.”
“...at times, the greatest courage of all is to live.”
“Bernard [Leach] was, as I said , trained as a painter and an etcher.”
“Actually, because I'm so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I play an open G chord I go right. That's how hard I play, and that's how a lot of my stage act has come about. I just go where the guitar takes me.”
“I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. So then that picture is taken and then the next one is waiting somewhere else.”

Source : "Out of the ordinary". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2004.
“There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.”
“The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.”
“I doubt if many of my contemporaries, especially the older ones, did many exercises. I have often tried to picture (Godfrey) Evans and (Denis) Compton doing press-ups in the out field before the days play, but so far have failed miserably.”

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