"Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder than anything we can say."

-- Wilferd Peterson

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“I find myself a lot more open to bands if I just hear their song. It gives you an opportunity to engage with the thing itself and not be overwhelmed by everything else that surrounds it.”
“The path to success is through a continuum of mundane, unsexy, unexciting, and sometimes difficult daily disciplines compounded over time”
“it's 12 amyl nitrites (one box), in conjunction with as many beers as necessary.”
“Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.”
“To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.”

Source : Tony Dorsett, Harvey Frommer (1989). “Running tough: memoirs of a football maverick”, Doubleday Books
“Keep your mind too open, and you never know what might walk in.”

Source : Simon R. Green (2014). “Drinking Midnight Wine”, p.127, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
“People focus too much on weight, dress sizes, and tape measurements - and those aren't motivating. What gets me going is: I'm 52, and because I work out, I know my fitness will improve and my immune system will stay strong, and my body will prevent injuries. I like being fit, strong, coordinated, and agile.”
“A work of art is itself an object, first of all, and so manipulation is unavoidable: it's a prerequisite. But I needed the greater objectivity of the photograph in order to correct my own way of seeing: for instance, if I draw an object from nature, I start to stylize and to change it in accordance with my personal vision and my training. But if I paint from a photograph, I can forget all the criteria that I get from these sources. I can paint against my will, as it were. And that, to me, felt like an enrichment.”

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