"The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often to see shows. They would bring back the albums and the movies, those little eight metres, and we would all watch. I think that was when I fell in love with acting."

-- Willem Dafoe

#Art Quotes #Dad Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Funny how all things people donâ€™t understand seem to be â€˜cursedâ€™.”
“The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP.”
“A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.”
“Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited.”
“I think it's almost a unique control that artists can have now more than they ever did, I think if you don't be proactive about how you want your music to be visually represented, I think other people will do it for you - so how comfortable are you with people putting their own two cents on it?”
“When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime.”
“The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross with hair-line precision.”
“For many people, the big feast of the year is Christmas, but for Christians, the truly great feast is Easter. Without Easter, without the Resurrection, we would not have the gift of salvation. Jesus had to rise from the dead or else he would have just been another failed Messiah and his birth would be a forgotten footnote of history.”

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