"You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open."

-- Elizabeth Berg

#Writing Quotes #Risk Quotes #Important Quotes

“It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.”
“I think music can really affect people's emotions and, when I am about to get into a race car, I definitely listen to music with a good beat - that's when you've got the adrenalin pumping. And the time before you go into a race weekend, you have a lot of emotion and adrenalin, and a lot of focus.”
“There's part of our brain that we shut off when we're in the studio. There's part of our brain that we turn on when we are out doing an interview or promoting something or waking up at six in the morning for hair and makeup.”
“We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.”
“The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue ....perhaps the deepest and loftiest thing the world has to show.”
“I'm always wondering: Have all these time-saving devices actually saved us any time, or have they just created a million fetishes and obsessions that keep us from the quiet half hour we should be taking to sit and do nothing every day?”
“I'm going to die with my mind intact. And to me that is the most exciting way you could possibly die.”
“I'll talk. You'll listen.”

Source : Bruce Nauman, Emma Dexter, Tate Modern (Gallery) (2004). “Bruce Nauman: raw materials”, Tate Gallery Pubn

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