"Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil."

-- Edward Dahlberg

#Art Quotes #Writing Quotes #People Quotes

“Animation is so much work! I don't know if I have the skills to really hack that. Maybe as storyboard artist or something like that. But you have to go to school to be an animator. I can't just pop behind the animator's table and be like, "Here I am.".”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The 3.5 billion unreached people on earth would form a single file line that would stretch around the equator 25 times! Can you picture 25 lines of Christless people, trampling endlessly toward hell? Let that vision stay with you day and night.”
“I'm taking one for the team, Like Martin Luther King, taking one for a dream”

Source : Song: Dirty Mef, Album: 4:21... The Day After, 2006
“I've often said the most difficult things I have to say to people through humour. I can very quickly put someone in their place with it. But we all walk away unscathed because there's been some funnies around it, and I'll usually make sure that it comes back at me.”
“If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is.”

Source : Rebecca Stead (2012). “Liar & Spy”, p.38, Wendy Lamb Books
“I had gotten to know the music scene there, and just fell in love with it. I've lived there a little over four years now. There's a charm to Denton. The musicians in Denton are all very talented, but they're also all very accessible and very community-oriented.”
“The painting is always done very much with [the model's] co-operation. The problem with painting a nude, of course, is that it deepens the transaction. You can scrap a painting of someone's face and it imperils the sitter's self-esteem less than scrapping a painting of the whole naked body.”
“Libraries and demons," she muttered. "What is the attraction?”

Source : Jana Oliver (2010). “Retro Demonology”, p.9, Macmillan

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