"One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm."

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Source : Barbara Hambly (2011). “Bride of the Rat God”, p.42, Open Road Media

Barbara Hambly

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“Ever since I was a little kid, I always dreamed of being a Big City kid, because I grew up in a very small town up north in Canada. I have to say I just love the city lights at night.”
“What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.”
“Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.”
“I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.”
“I feel like the world is super different now than it was in 2009. And to get at something that's somewhat darker, harsher, rougher, and a bit more challenging feels right.”

Source : "Dirty Projectors". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2012.
“By letting go of yourself, leaving yourself and everything yours behind so decisively that nothing more is left of you but a purposeless tension .”

Source : Eugen Herrigel (1964). “Zen”
“If you make intense supplication and the timing of the answer is delayed, do not despair of it. His reply to you is guaranteed; but in the way He chooses, not the way you choose, and at the moment He desires, not the moment you desire.”
“If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minute -- Ive got to have them.”

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