"It's nice to be taken seriously."

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Source : "Festival preview: A conversation with activist Bruce Cockburn". Interview with Fish Griwkowsky, www.brucecockburn.org. August 7, 2013.

Henry Selick

#Nice Quotes #Taken Quotes

“We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong.”
“Take the Long Way Home is a song that I wrote that's on two levels - on one level I'm talking about not wanting to go home to the wife, 'take the long way home' because she treats you like part of the furniture. But there's a deeper level to the song, too. I really believe we all want to find our true home, find that place in us where we feel at home, and to me, home is in the heart. When we’re in touch with our heart and we're living our life from our heart, then we do feel like we found our home.”

Source : FaceBook post by Roger Hodgson from Nov 12, 2015
“Changi became my university instead of my prison. ... Among the inmates there were experts in all walks of life - the high and the low roads. I studied and absorbed everything I could from physics to counterfeiting, but most of all I learned the art of surviving.”

Source : "James Clavell, Best-Selling Storyteller of Far Eastern Epics, Is Dead at 69" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. September 8, 1994.
“On the one hand the world is getting more integrated and we should not dismiss social values as "Western" when they are actually modern values. On the other hand, individual countries have their own history and their own evolution. Trade unions, for example, don't play the same role in China as they do in Europe or the US.”
“You can't know how weird your own life is until you get some distance on it. Everything seems mundane or boring or embarrassingly small.”

Source : "To Rage Against Meaninglessness". Interview with Matt Bell, logger.believermag.com. February 6, 2014.
“Almost any trick can be improved by thinking through it slowlyThe first step is to not blink”
“Think about it. These guys have far more reasons to pull a prank on Doug than they do me. I kind of wished we had changed clothes, though.' 'There wasn't time,' Katie said. 'Your true love is in desperate need of your assistance. How can you think of changing into the appropriate attire for a rescue?”
“The indexing problem changes with each new book undertaken. To meet the needs of different classes of seekers and to suit various types of books, rules entirely satisfactory in one case must be varied in the next and perhaps ignored or even reversed for a third... Indexing is a highly complex intellectual process involving the use of language in a specific and somewhat artificial way, and that it is also to a considerable extent a matter of intuition, the workings of which cannot be reduced to fixed rules. It is 'knowing what but not knowing how'.”

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