"As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job."

-- Black Francis

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“I got into hairdressing and moved from Dorset to London, where I got an apprenticeship at Vidal Sassoon. This was around '83 or '84. I was working on South Molton Street, which was then the epicenter of all the shops. It was like a catwalk. So I did my apprenticeship there, but I wasn't successful.”
“People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.”
“This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped it in His own image.”

Source : James Weldon Johnson (2000). “Complete Poems”, p.17, Penguin
“â€Ž"Itâ€™s not as if I donâ€™t have anything to read; thereâ€™s a tower of perfectly good unread books next to my bed, not to mention the shelves of books in the living room Iâ€™ve been meaning to reread. I find myself, maddeningly, hungry for the next one, as yet unknown. I no longer try to analyze this hunger; I capitulated long ago to the book lust thatâ€™s afflicted me most of my life.”
“You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.”

Source : 1898 Telegram to the artist Frederic Remington at the beginning of the Spanish - American War in Cuba, Mar. This may be apocryphal, but it inspired a famous line of dialogue in Orson Welles's film Citizen Kane.
“I stopped watching TV because of 'The Wire.' Like, 'The Wire' ruined everything for me because I don't even want to watch anything else now.”
“It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.”
“Yes?' Joe Solomon sounded like someone with far better things to do. 'Is there any homework?' she asked, and the class turned instantly from shocked to irritated. (Never ask that question in a room full of girls who are all black belts in karate) 'Yes,' Solomon said, holding the door in the universal signal for get out. 'Notice things.”

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