"Clockers" asks--almost in passing, and there's a lot more to it than this--a pretty interesting question: if you choose to work for the minimum wage when everyone around you is pocketing thousands from drug deals, then what does that do to you, to your head and to your heart? (Hornby's thoughts after reading "Clockers" by Richard Price)"

-- Nick Hornby

#Reading Quotes #Heart Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“I bounced off a rock at the bottom and saw stars for a second, but I wasn't knocked out. It's the rush of rushes, the most incredible feeling I've ever had.”
“My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.”

Source : "Nick Cave Sings the Blues". Interview with Brian Orloff, www.rollingstone.com. October 22, 2004.
“Guys usually like my sense of humor, and I am pretty down to earth. And I'm a driven person.”

Source : Interview with Teena Apeles, www.askmen.com.
“I am not a monster. I'm not all bad. Maybe 10 percent. I think I'm 90 percent good.”
“Souls do not wish to be bullied, but gently brought back; such is the nature of man.”
“If you want to go foraging into the wilds of Canada without proper gear, you deserve what you get, even if that happens to include being attacked by an undead moose.”
“A dreamer he was, and ever would be. Yet dreaming need not injure us, if it do but take its turn with waking; and even dreams themselves may be turned to beauty, by favoured men to whom nature has given the powers of casting them into form.”
“Sometimes when you're making songs you just make sounds, and the sounds slowly mutate and evolve into actual words that have meaning.”

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