"When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country."

-- Baz Luhrmann

#Country Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Drama Quotes

“So much of our cultural representation of what an investigative journalist looks like, in movies and pop culture, is about this really testosterone-filled dude screaming, "Give me what you got!" I didn't see myself as someone who would be good at or comfortable with that.”
“There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt? Have you not thought that you have some duties toward them, that you can aid them in leading better lives?”

Source : Paul Bourget (1893). “Cosmopolis”, p.34, Library of Alexandria
“You really think all of those indie music dorks go to SXSW every year to check out music? They go there to wear their laminates and act important and try to get laid.”
“As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.”
“Real music is what I consider to be uncorporatized music, the music that just happens. I feel like that's not a very well-known thing.”

Source : "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.
“I think a lot of American poets are swimming-pool Soviets. A lot of them have taken the comfortable, self-protective route too often. I know that I certainly have. That's easy to do.”

Source : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.
“Sometimes your greatest strength can emerge as a weakness if the context changes.”
“Industry in art is a necessity - not a virtue - and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone will efface the footsteps of work.”

Source : James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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