"In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded."

-- Esther Dyson

#Russia Quotes #People Quotes #Effort Quotes

“It was good to get a few days off after the number of games we had. Now it's back to reality.”
“My friend advised me to go into studying art, which at first shocked me because art was so easy. It was just something I did, like breathing or brushing my teeth. It couldn't be a job. I had a much more difficult time writing plays, making myself sit at that typewriter and finish those things.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“We are a nation called to defend freedom - a tradition that is not a grant of any government or document, but is an endowment from God.”
“Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery, because we have .. the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality .. which, from time to time, reveals itself to be vain and illusory.”
“In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece”
“Sometimes it's hard to listen to new music and get motivated, because it's elementary to me - no disrespect to new artists, because that's where we started, too. But it's like they're way back there in first grade, and I'm in college.”

Source : Interview with David Drake, pitchfork.com. October 15, 2014.
“Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.”
“To some extent the shorter the writing assignment is, the harder it is to accomplish, and a blurb is 200 words max. Blurbs are meaningless, and actual people who are buying the books don't care about them at all.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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