"Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act..."

-- Ai Weiwei

#Air Quotes #People Quotes #Water Quotes

“Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something inside that must come out.”

Source : Gene Weingarten (2010). “The Fiddler in the Subway: The Story of the World-Class Violinist Who Played for Handouts. . . And Other Virtuoso Performances by America's Foremost Feature Writer”, p.55, Simon and Schuster
“My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.”
“A lot of the stuff in 'Speed Racer' has never been done before, from it having a multi-tone, to it having a retro-cool family movie, to having the photo-realism with the CG-backgrounds and infinite focus the way they worked with these digital cameras, to even the color experimentation.”

Source : "‘Speed Racer’ Puts Emile Hirsch in the Driver's Seat". The Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.
“... the novel, as a living force, if not as a work of art, owes an incalculable debt to what we call, mistakenly, the new psychology, to Freud, in his earlier interpretations, and more truly, I think, to Jung.”
“I have been underestimated for decades. I've done very well that way.”
“Its a marathon, its not a sprint. Ten years. Fifteen years. You've got to get up everyday, with a new idea, a new spin, and you've got to bring it to work, every day”
“Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?”
“Anytime you can muster the fury to actually write in the face of the impossibility of writing, that's an achievement.”

Source : Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. August 10, 2012.

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