"I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk."

-- PJ Harvey

#People Quotes #Interviews Quotes #Music Is Quotes

“I think I felt like a regular kid. Growing up in New York, I never felt I was a big deal.”
“At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship.”
“liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream white media. We have to accent liberty and freedom of expression and thought in all their forms.”
“I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the journals of 18th-century seafarers lately, and even the lowliest press-ganged deck-swabber turns a finer phrase than I do most days.”
“Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.”
“I don't wear any make-up on normal days and at school. But, if I'm going somewhere, I always do something with my eyes - crazy colors, sparkles. I'm all for it. I love experimenting.”

Source : "Elle Fanning on Boys, Marilyn Monroe, and her New Film 'Ginger & Rosa'". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. Macrh 15, 2013.
“That sucks, though," Wes said finally, his voice low. "You're just setting yourself up to fail, because you'll never get everything perfect." "Says who?" He just looked at me. "The world," he said, gesturing all around us, as if this party, this deck encompassed it all. "The universe. There's just no way. And why would you want everything to be perfect, anyway?" "I don't want everything to be perfect," I said. Just me, I thought. Somehow. "I just wantâ€””
“Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.”

Source : Richard Diebenkorn, John McEnroe, Jane Livingston, Barnaby Conrad (2003). “Richard Diebenkorn: figurative works on paper”, Chronicle Books

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