"So thatâ€™s what art is, for the artist,â€ said Crake. â€œAn empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid."

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Margaret Atwood

#Art Quotes #Empty Quotes #Said Quotes

“I smoke, isn't that terrible?”
“We will never know the extent of the damage movies are doing to us, but movie art, it appears, thrives on moral chaos. When the country is paralyzed, the popular culture may tell us why. After innocence, winners become losers. Movies are probably inuring us to corruption; the sellout is the hero-survivor for our times.”
“I'm a big fan of working out on my own. I put my headphones on and I'm pretty good at self-motivating. At the end of the day, I enjoy it. Once I'm there and once I get going, I tend to love it, and I feel good.”
“There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.”
“Three hundred men, each of whom knows all the other, govern the fate of the European continent, and they elect their successors from their entourage.”
“Mental illness was a family secret. This patient had four children grow up in foster homes, and they never knew her. It was heart-wrenching for her granddaughter to find this out.”
“I don't know if I have any real aspirations to be an actor. It was just something I was asked to do in sort of a friend way. And I thought, Why not?”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.”

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