"There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth."

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Source : "Lower Manhattan Survival Tactics". "The Village Voice" Magazine, 1983.

Cynthia Heimel

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Creative Quotes

“Watching first nights, though I've seen quite a few by now, is never any better. It's a nerve-racking experience. It's not a question of whether the play goes well or badly. It's not the audience reaction, it's my reaction. I'm rather hostile toward audiencesÂ—I don't much care for large bodies of people collected together. Everyone knows that audiences vary enormously; it's a mistake to care too much about them. The thing one should be concerned with is whether the performance has expressed what one set out to express in writing the play. It sometimes does.”
“For the record, I'd like to say that I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I have a chance to get even first" Kinsey Millhone, V is for Vengeance”
“I'm not a terribly social person, and so I have to really like people to work with them.”
“When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity.”
“A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.”
“I am not what I think I am. I just am.”

Source : Jaimal Yogis (2009). “Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea”, p.231, Simon and Schuster
“If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good oneâ€”and the same goes for paintings.”

Source : Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “One Art: Letters”, p.612, Macmillan
“You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp.”

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