"I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night."

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Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “The End Of Alice”, p.149, Granta Books

A.M. Homes

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“When Tim asked me to do Frankenweenie, he had his original sketches from before he did the short, of what Sparky looked like, and he drew Victor and some of the other crucial people. The remarkable thing about working with Tim is that, once he's read a script, he sketches out everybody else.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.”
“I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.”
“I believe in imagination. I was a worker when I was 17. Between 17 and 21, I was a worker in the telephone company and imagination saved my life.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”
“I think a lot of ladies get quite scared about people like me, 'rock stars', and it can be hard to meet the right sort of person.”

Source : "Jay Kay: 'Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy'". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. October 31, 2010.
“The rule I use is, If it doesn't come out of the ground looking the way it looks when you eat it, be careful.”
“There was a precarious balance during those crucial months between composition and decomposition - what the world gained and what a great city lost. Even then, some part of Detroit was dying, and that is where the story begins.”

Source : David Maraniss (2016). “Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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