"Try it. You don't have to do it ever again if you don't want to. But try it once. Try everything once."

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Source : Melvin Burgess (2010). “Smack”, p.160, Macmillan

Melvin Burgess

#Trying Quotes #Want Quotes #Smack Quotes

“For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.”

Source : George Lakoff, Mark Johnson (1999). “Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought”, p.26, Basic Books
“In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.”
“What I liked about doing a soundtrack is that it's almost the opposite of any kind of normal recording that a band does, because it's very much a restricted, narrow... And I kind of like that, I find it exciting to work within these things.”
“I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in school, which was film studies. That was what I intended on doing, but I didn't go away to a university because I wanted to stay in L.A. and audition while I took classes, so I elected to go to a community college and just take G.E. courses. It was terrible.”
“Sometimes I'm not always doing amazing but it's okay... because everyone struggles and it's okay to be flawed because that's what makes me... Me.”
“I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war - the brutal corrupting viciousness of its doing to the minds and bodies of men; and, that my photographs might be a powerful emotional catalyst to the reasoning which would help this vile and criminal stupidity from beginning again.”
“You can believe in women's rights without believing that every woman is right.”
“..this feeling haunts and inhabits me, like a sickness. it covers me, like skin.”

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