"If you're the creative, artsy one who goes off to study painting or filmmaking, you're often seen as an outsider partly because traditionally, it has never been seen as a way to have a career."

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Source : "Dan Fox and the Virtues of Pretension". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 5, 2016.

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“I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.”
“I'm not interested in how people move; I'm interested in what makes them move.”
“If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help.”
“It is habit for me to discount myself before somebody else does it for me. Better to get in the first lick”

Source : Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.411, Rowman & Littlefield
“Real Democrats don't make promises they can't keep.”
“Believe it or not, I got into the charismatic, shady, sly heart of Sedgewick Bell by watching CNN and C-SPAN.”
“Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.”
“I feel like there are moments where musicians may be more interested - or culture in general - to show roots and where one comes from. And later there comes a time where that has lesser importance for artists, and instead they become more interested in affiliating themselves with global or international trends. Fortunately, we were in the right place at the right time, and that allowed us to experiment, play and enjoy.”

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