"I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony."

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Barry Hannah

#Art Quotes #Hurt Quotes #People Quotes

“The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.”
“Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have that much in common with someone, I can't help but like him a little.”
“How could anybody think of Bach as 'cold' when these [cello] suites seem to shine with the most glittering kind of poetry," Casals said. "As I got on with the study I discovered a new world of space and beauty... the feelings I experienced were among the purest and most intense in my artistic life!”
“It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.”
“I would collaborate with James Franco as a rapper any day.”
“When I leave a room, it's gonna be footprints of funk wherever I stepped, because I'm a soul-funk crusader.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.”

Source : Russell L. Ackoff (1986). “Management in Small Doses”, Wiley
“As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form.”

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