"I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before."

-- Alexandra Fuller

#Book Quotes #Becoming Quotes #Wonderful Quotes

“Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.”

Source : Edward Bond (2013). “Lear”, p.84, A&C Black
“A seed has to get buried in the soil for its real form as a plant to emerge. Only through modesty and humility can we grow. Pride and conceit will only destroy us. Live with the firm attitude, 'I am everyone's servant.' Then the whole universe will bow down to us.”
“I work best when people are here to puncture me”
“Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place, efforts to broaden the political participation of the populations of the region.”
“Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere in India.”
“I love it. It's all good to me. Whether I'm performing in New York, L.A., Columbus or Des Moines, I give 110 percent every night.”
“I don't know if I was a poseur - I really did love metal, always - but I gave a lot of other things a chance. I wanted to meet, um, girls, so I would check out Depeche Mode. But mostly I wanted stuff with pentagrams and crowns of thorns on it.”

Source : "Random Rules: Brian Posehn". Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. October 2, 2006.
“The Doors are perfect paintings; a relief from the picture world Iâ€™ve created for myself.”

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