"Peculiar or not, it is my idea of pleasure. Why, why else do you lead this life you don't enjoy it? Don't talk of duty to me; you men always have some high-sounding excuse for indulging yourselves. You go gallivanting over the earth, climbing mountains, looking for the sources of the Nile; and expect women to sit dully at home embroidering. I embroider very badly. I think I would excavate rather well."

-- Barbara Mertz

#Home Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“This sadness wasn't a huge part of me--I wasn't remotely depressed--but still, it was like a stone I carried in my pocket. I always knew it was there. [p. 179]”
“I am very, very tuned into people. If something's wrong, I can sense it from the moment they walk in the studio.”
“I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.”
“History tells me that when the Russians come to a country they don't go back.”
“Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. It's like making a stew. You put all these various ingredients in it. You season it with this. You put that in it. You put the other in it. You mix it all up and it comes out something neat, something that you created.”
“Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.”
“Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use â€“ do the work you want to see done.”

Source : Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.48, Workman Publishing
“The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.”

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