"Icon. What is an icon? When someone is iconic it means they have established a certain kind of legacy possibly, and I think it does come with time. It's something in the arts, I feel. Maybe not, maybe it doesn't have to be in the arts exactly. I'm not really sure. But I don't think you are born an icon."

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Source : "'What is an icon?'". Interview with Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2005.

Diana Ross

#Art Quotes #Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“In the action of no-action (wu-wei), a cardinal aspect of the true creative process is set forth. In wu-wei, the mind is silenced and the work is allowed to express itself.”
“Money can be more of a barrier between people than language or race or religion.”

Source : Vera Caspary (1964). “A chosen sparrow”
“I think it's beautiful to practice. I love to practice.”
“I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best." Well, there's no good response to that. I can hardly dispute it since I was walking around with a syringe to kill Peeta when I found them. Do I really want him dead? What I want...what I want is to have him back.”
“Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70.”

Source : "WordPress, Matt Mullenweg" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2006.
“What is absolutely true is that any good [Television] series has a specific voice. And I think that voice is almost exclusively the domain of the executive producer. . . . As a staff writer you're not being called upon to be the great creative person. You're sort of called upon to understand the characters and their voices and put them through certain paces.”
“What inspires me is anxiety and the quest to try to change things in my life. ...I got addicted to endings and beginnings and to the idea of always moving around. ...Obviously, whenever you're going through something that's the best time to create, if you're going through something amazing, or horrible, or nothing at all you should be creating. Unfortunately the songwriters of today generally torture themselves to make sure they're writing good songs and take it a little too seriously.”
“There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.”

Source : "Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose". Book by B. W. Powe, 2007.

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