"I don't think ordinary things are very interesting, so I try to imagine a world that is less ordinary."

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Source : Scholastic Interview, www.scholastic.com. November 10, 2004.

Chris Van Allsburg

#Thinking Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days - whatever there may be for the dust - the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.”
“Better be unromantic than thoroughly used and still poor.”
“You okay?" Anton asks, looking at me like he's trying to figure out if I'm drunk. His plans depend on me. I look as blank as possible and hope that it freaks him out. No point in my being the only miserable one.”
“Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.”
“Reggae is a message of consolation; a message of salvation. The youth are going to the school and they have to listen to the words. The parents have to listen to the words. God has to listen to the words. So, we have to make it positive. If you sing nursery rhymes, it is nothing. You just blow up tomorrow, and the record dies at the same time. But if you give positive words, that song lives forever.”
“the company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.”
“Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood.”

Source : Mark Vonnegut, M.D. (2010). “Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir”, p.14, Delacorte Press
“I've gotten to work with amazing people. I would say usually we get to a point before we get into the studio where there isn't that sense of anxiety or nervousness of who they are because I don't think it would be as productive in the studio if that was the case. But maybe meeting someone like Neil Young for the first time made me anxious.”

Source : "Dave Grohl Vs Rick Rubin". Interview with Tim Noakes, www.dazeddigital.com. March 21, 2013.

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