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“It's fine to be insane as long as you keep it to yourself.”
Source : Carol Plum-Ucci (2011). “Following Christopher Creed”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“I could speak to you and say, 'Laytay-chai, paisey, paisey.' ... Why aren't you responding? Oh, you don't speak Swahili. Well, I've got news for you. The dog doesn't speak English, or American, or Spanish, or French.”
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“Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.”
Source : "Still voice, distant life" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2002.
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“Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.”
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“Jack [Kirby] and Joe [Simon] wrote and drew the stories themselves in the beginning and I was just, like, the office boy. But after a while they had more writing than they could handle and I was the only guy around, so they said, "Hey Stan, you think you can write this?" When you're seventeen years old, what do you know? I said, "Sure, I can do it!" And that was it.”
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“You can't teach talent, but you can teach people how to read strenuously and mimic the moves of rock-star writers so that they eventually accumulate a toolbox of skills.”
Source : "The Infectious Benjamin Percy". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 6, 2013.
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“Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error.”
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“I have lived under the threat of death for a year now. And because of that, I have made choices. Listen to me. I alone should suffer the consequences of those choices, no one else. And those consequences, they're coming. No more prolonging the inevitable.”