"I never think about actual things when I'm painting. I'm not thinking, "I'm going to put a person here, a tree here and a bird there." The beginning stage is always the sound. From that, slowly, stories come about based on what I'm reading or thinking at the time, but if I didn't have that sound I don't know what I would do."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Ali Banisadr

#Reading Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Bird Quotes

“In that way the long-awaited visit, for which both had prepared questions and had even anticipated answers, was once more the usual everyday conversation.”
“I don't want to be the person digging my own grave.”
“Chewing transforms even toxins into nutritive substances.”

Source : "Essential Ohsawa: From Food to Health, Happiness to Freedom - Understanding the Basics of Macrobiotics". Book edited by Carl Ferré and Herman Aihara, p. 97, 1994.
“I hope what people learned from watching me is that just because you do things a little differently doesn't mean you can't do them just as well.”

Source : "Chasing an Impossible Dream" by Jim Abbott, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2015.
“I believe that the time given to refutation in philosophy is usually time lost. Of the many attacks directed by many thinkers against each other, what now remains? Nothing, or assuredly very little. That which counts and endures is the modicum of positive truth which each contributes. The true statement is, of itself, able to displace the erroneous idea, and becomes, without our having taken the trouble of refuting anyone, the best of refutations.”
“I've been coming to Cambodia off and on, six months of the year usually.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.”

Source : "E.L. James talks 'Fifty Shades,' her future plans". Interview with Deirdre Donahue, www.usatoday.com. December 19, 2012.
“Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word.”

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