"Besides, if I wanted to hear people speaking wall-to-wall French, all I had to do was remove my headphones and participate in what is known as â€˜real life,â€™ a concept as uninviting as a shampoo cocktail."

-- David Sedaris

#Wall Quotes #Real Quotes #People Quotes

“If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.”
“Often your 'fixes' are actually removing capabilities that you had, because they were 'too confusing to the user'. GNOME seems to be developed by interface Nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'.”
“In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.”
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
“When I'm on a picture, I have two bosses - the director and the producer. My co-star is not my boss.”
“All one really requires for putting anything over is enough energy and resistance to keep on plugging the idea. Someone will eventually fall.”
“We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.”
“Their [artists'] essential effort is to catapult themselves wholly, without holding back one bit, into a course of action without having any idea where they will end up. They are like riders who gallop into the night, eagerly leaning on their horse's neck, peering into a blinding rain. And they have to do it over and over again.”

Source : Anne Truitt, Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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