"You know, my father died of cancer when I was a teenager. He had it before it became popular."

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Source : The New Yorker (1977)

Goodman Ace

#Father Quotes #Cancer Quotes #Teenager Quotes

“I know when I'm onstage, I don't think about how it looks, I just concentrate on really feeling what I hear. But I totally know I look like Gollum when I perform, so it's cool.”

Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. December 15, 2013.
“Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself. But if you want to have a good harvest, the most important thing is to make the soil rich and cultivate it well.”
“I am like the perfect horror movie viewer because I do not get scared very easily.”

Source : "Actress Tania Raymonde talks 'Texas Chainsaw 3D'". Interview with Joseph Airdo, www.axs.com. January 3, 2013.
“I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing - my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes.”

Source : "What I see in the mirror" by Gary Kemp, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2012.
“I kept shooting but started making drafts of the work, essentially spending a few days a month sequencing and editing, hanging things up on the board, showing them to trusted confidantes from in and outside the photo world. It started to take its shape naturally over time until I kind of ran out of ideas.”
“I'll always be happy if they'd leave me alone in that delightful and unknown furthest corner, apart from struggles, putrefactions and nonsense; the ultimate corner of sugar and toast, where the mermaids catch the branches of the willows and the heart opens to a flute's sharpness.”
“Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.”
“Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.”

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