"The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do."

-- Carlisle Floyd

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“The thing is, I really can't relate to anyone my own age. Not in a superior way - an inferior way, if anything. Socially, I have no idea what my friends are talking about. I don't listen to any new music. I feel very secluded.”

Source : "Sardonic youth" by Andrew Male, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2007.
“A strange thing â€” nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart.”
“I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Thus to share in the sufferings of Christ is, at the same time, to suffer for the kingdom of God. In the eyes of the just God, before his judgment. Those who share in the sufferings of Christ become worthy of this kingdom.”
“[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.”
“There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is......me.”
“I grew up in Bulgaria in a small city on the Black Sea Coast, so I was very interested in the sea, marine life, and everything related to it. But it was also a very dark place at night, so I could see the stars. And I just got very interested in it.”

Source : "Professor Spotlight: Sasselov on Super-Earths". Interview with Brian C. Zhang, www.thecrimson.com. February 10, 2012.
“Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness of the Now. You can't argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.”

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