"I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating."

-- Jessi Colter

#Creating Quotes #Giving Quotes #Ends Quotes

“Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.”
“The moment an individual can accept and forgive him or herself, even a little, is the moment in which he or she becomes to some degree lovable.”
“I've done a lot of movies, and you really never know. You do a movie and you think that it's great, and then you see it and it doesn't work.”
“Can I ask why youâ€™re throwing knives at cheese?â€™ â€˜Caleb came by to discuss something,â€™ Tobias says, leaning his head against the wall as he looks at me. â€˜And knife-throwing just came up somehow.â€™ â€˜As it so often does,â€™ I say, a small smile inching across my face.”
“We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's very easy to forget that and to engage in an atomistic fallacy - where we think that all we have to do is study the individual components of a system in order to understand the system. That's clearly not the case when it comes to social systems.”
“But after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice.”
“Men live best on moderate means: Nature has dispensed to all men wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how to use her gifts.”
“I always think to myself, being human, having crushes now, what is it about that person that I really want? What do they represent? More freedom? Someone to care for me more? It's never really about the person.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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