"Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children."

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Source : Ned Rorem (2001). “A Ned Rorem Reader”, p.26, Yale University Press

Ned Rorem

#Children Quotes #Artist Quotes

“You don't fall in love with a gender, you fall in love with a person.”
“Its difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesnt matter if youre talking vampire movies or Dawn of the Dead or The Thing or Escape From New York. Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it.”
“The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.”
“I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.”
“The blind pursuit of learning leads to excessive desiresâ€”the more you see, the more you want. Excessive desires, in turn, lead to anxiety and misery.”

Source : Derek Lin (2006). “Tao Te Ching”, p.40, SkyLight Paths Publishing
“Russia has the ability to control Ukraine's economic future because of the natural gas pipeline link. And as a result, that means that Russia has just all along been in a stronger bargaining position.”
“Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.”
“One moment I'm perfectly fine and the next I feel a wave of nausea, then panic. Then I can't catch my breath and I know I'm about to lose control and all I want to do is escape. Except that the one thing I can't escape from is the very thing I want to run away from... me.”

Source : Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.119, Pan Macmillan

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