"I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist."

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Source : "The Lyric Presents Leo Kottke 1/23". www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2010.

Leo Kottke

#Artist Quotes #Lines Quotes #Way Quotes

“I speak to kids 16, 17 years old, they haven't read a newspaper. They haven't physically handled a newspaper. They don't even look at the headlines on a subway. These kids are on the Internet and the level of news that they're getting is not the quality of 'The New York Times' or 'The Wall Street Journal.' It's way deficient, and they don't care.”
“When I wrote the first [Bond novel] in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened... when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard.”
“Sex and the City was about looking for Mr Big and trying to find him.”
“Smell the cheese often so you know when it is getting old.”
“There's been an awful lot of silence in make culture about this ongoing tragedy of men's violence against women and children... we need to break that silence, and we need more men to do that.”
“It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.”

Source : Ellis Peters (2015). “The House Of Green Turf”, p.67, Head of Zeus
“Being able to influence the outcome, being able to do something about it, to be able to stop the bleeding. You're not being useful if you're just standing there going "Oh, that's awful!" You're only useful if you actually do something about it and I think that goes for everything. If you actually do something about what's in front of you, then you are actually contributing and you haven't got time to be self-centred or sorry for yourself. You should be doing something about the person you really should feel sorry for.”
“When I'm treating myself, it's a full-on burrito, all loaded up!”

Source : "Jenna Aks: Have You Ever Tried A Fad Diet?" by Jenna Ushkowitz, www.seventeen.com. January 30, 2012.

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