"I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable."

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Carlisle Floyd

#Writing Quotes #Kind Quotes #Found Quotes

“It's not good to be in a situation where people don't want to direct you or don't want to question something.”
“'Now we are the sons of God'. This is the starting point of adoption. However, 'it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is' (I Jn. 3:2). This is the perfection of adoption of sons and renewal which God bestowed on us in Christ, and of which John says in his Gospel that, 'Christ gave power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God' (Jn. 1:12-13).”
“I hope one day when I say I'm from Estonia, people don't say: 'What? Where's that?'”
“When I did the first 'Matrix,' after it came out, I had a woman come up to me and just thank me for Trinity because she was an action writer. She said she was getting really good opportunities now.”

Source : Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. May 12, 2003.
“Vast ills have followed a belief in certainty.”
“You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.”
“Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream -- of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete -- lives the rest of their life with a sense of loss, with nagging what ifs,”
“I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.”

Source : "Edward Norton in the Kingdom of Cannes". Interview with Annette Insdorf, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2012.

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