"I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting."

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Source : "Transforming the World through Art". Academy of Achievement Interview, June 3, 2006.

Julie Taymor

#Believe Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the spelling of words.”
“Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of the moment and what people will like right now; the idea is to somehow keep yourself in the public memory so that as taste evolves it will eventually come to embrace your thing. So, it's about writing to be remembered rather than writing to be liked.”
“The form is always the measure of the obsession.”
“I like everything in my room has to be in order. If there's a wrinkle in the comforter, I'm stretching it out. But this is only when it comes to my room. Outside of there, I'm not as intense.”
“The measure of a man is what happens when nothing works and you got the guts to go on.”
“Publishers are private businesspeople who must reach their economic goals independently.”
“Let me in, immigration man, can I cross the line and pray, I can stay another day? Won't you let me in, immigration man? I won't toe your line today, I can't see it anyway.”
“He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.”

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