"I simply constructed a project to try to snap Kurt [Cobain] out of a frame of mind. I sent him a plane ticket and a driver, and he tacked the plane ticket to the wall in the bedroom and the driver sat outside the house for 10 hours. Kurt wouldn't come out and wouldn't answer the phone."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Michael Stipe

#Wall Quotes #Phones Quotes #House Quotes

“There's nothing wrong with a lisp.”

Source : Roland Smith (2005). “The Cryptid hunters”
“My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?”
“Palming separates the men from the boys!”
“It had helped to keep her sane, that writing. Then, when time had begun again and real people had entered it, she'd abandoned it here. Now it's a whisper from the past. Is that what writing amounts to? The voice your ghost would have, if it had a voice?”
“Man is certainly the most disgusting kind of worm that has ever crawled on this stupid ugly planet.”
“I cannot tell you how happy and in love I am with everything”
“If I fail, if I succeed, at least I live as I believe.”

Source : Song: The Greatest Love Of All
“Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say that I had a few extraordinary English teachers in high school whom I still credit for their guidance.”

Source : "Washington Post Magazine: Real Life". Online chat, www.washingtonpost.com. July 14, 2008.

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