"When we were on breaks from recording and touring, I was kind of moping around, like not knowing what to do. It was hard to adjust back to normal life after being so busy."

-- Petra Haden

#Knowing Quotes #Normal Quotes #Kind Quotes

“I gave up rock 'n' roll for the rock of ages! I used to be a glaring homosexual until God changed me!”
“When you get hit that's when you've got to be calm. A professional fighter has to learn how to hit and not get hit, and at the same time be exciting. That's what professional boxing is about. You've got to be clever, you've got to be smart, and not get hit, and when you're able to do this, you're a fighter.”
“The fool who traveled is better off than the wise man who stayed home.”
“Russel Wright was the most responsible for the shift in taste toward modern in the late 1930s.”
“The most difficult thing in baseball is to be consistent. You can have one good year, but if the next is bad you're defrauding everyone.”
“Art is a normal and necessary behavior of human beings and like other common and universal occupations such as talking, working, exercising, playing, socializing, learning, loving, and caring, should be recognized, encouraged and developed in everyone. Via art, experience is heightened, elevated, made more memorable and significant”
“I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.”
“Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, donâ€™t we secretly clasp each otherâ€™s hands?”

Source : Bruno Schulz (2011). “The Fictions of Bruno Schulz: The Street of Crocodiles & Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass: The Street of Crocodiles & Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass”, p.101, Pan Macmillan

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