"its not bad to be different. Sometimes it's the mark of being very very talented."

-- Chris Van Allsburg

#Different Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Mark Quotes

“Live with your lips pressed against your fears, kissing your fears, neither pulling back nor aggressively violating them.”
“There's always another story. There's more than meets the eye.”

Source : W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.86, DEBOLS!LLO
“The most important thing to remember is you must know your audience.”
“Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.”

Source : Barnett Newman, John Philip O'Neill (1992). “Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.158, Univ of California Press
“You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate you”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas.”
“People of all ages, but especially young people, require work that as meaning, or social value. Since they're not getting the kind of long-term guarantees of yore, they're willing to job hop to find the right fit.”
“I know whites buy more records than blacks. So, I wanted to be able to make the most money that I could. Pop is for both whites and blacks, but if I just stuck to rhythm and blues, it's mostly for blacks. I didn't want to do that. So like I said, I wanted to get the most out of it that I could, so I thought that pop was the way to go.”

Source : Source: www.soultracks.com

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