"I only eat so that I can smoke and stay alive."

-- Harry Dean Stanton

#Alive Quotes #Staying Alive Quotes

“The private reader of listener can become an executant of felt meaning when he learns the poem or the musical passage by heart. To learn by heart is to afford the text or music an indwelling clarity and life-force.”
“Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!”
“If you'd done a good job you'd just step back and let all these different chemistries interact and let it go.”
“Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?”
“I try to view the challenges in my life not as annoyances, but as confirmations of fortitude.”
“As a teenager and a young adult, I never felt like my own story was interesting enough to tell, so I always wrote lyrics from someone else's perspective - told someone else's story.”

Source : "Beirut". Interview with Marc Hogan, pitchfork.com. August 31, 2011.
“I don't know what the hell I'm doing; I like what I've been doing. I believe in what I've done in the past and I hope to make a movie that; I hope my kid enjoys the movies I've made and enjoys some of the movies in the future.”
“There are two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn't do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the kind you could do something about wasn't what you'd originally wanted, it was still worth doing. A rainy day is better than no day. A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad.”

Source : Rachel Simon (2011). “The Story of Beautiful Girl”, p.189, Hachette UK

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