"There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve."

-- Matt Smith

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“Creativity is as important as literacy”
“I know everything about candy. Would you believe I even know where to find gumballs in the middle of Africa?”
“If the rhythm section is really swinging it's such a great feeling - you just want to laugh!”
“In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous. That reality could be an illusion. All humans live with the wrong assumptions. Isn't that another way of looking at it? That sharingan how much can you really se?”
“This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.”

Source : Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.343, Macmillan
“A star on earth - a star in heaven.”
“California is a tragic country â€” like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations â€” the land rush, the gold rush, the oil rush, the movie rush, the Okie fruit-picking rush, the wartime rush to the aircraft factories â€” followed, in each instance, by counter-migrations of the disappointed and unsuccessful, moving sorrowfully homeward.”
“Economic history is a never-ending series of episodes based on falsehoods and lies, not truths. It represents the path to big money. The object is to recognize the trend whose premise is false, ride that trend and step off before it is discredited.”

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