"The purpose of Art Education is to teach you how to draw."

-- Igor Babailov

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“Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.”
“I've always known that the best part of writing occurs before you've picked up a pen. When a story exists only in your mind, its potential is infinite; it's only when you start pinning words to paper that it becomes less than perfect. You have to make your choices, set your limits. Start whittling away at the cosmos, and don't stop until you've narrowed it down to a single, ordinary speck of dirt. And in the end, what you've made is not nearly as glorious as what you've thrown away.”
“You achieve long-term success step by step. Try to achieve your goals one at a time, like you do target practice.”
“If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything.”

Source : "Wyclef Jean: The pop star who would be president" by Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2010.
“I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating peopleâ€™s rights to get married, join the Army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform.”
“Ignorance is not bliss â€” it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.”
“If I hadnâ€™t done Bond, I wouldnâ€™t have been in America doing my series, and I would have had a different life.”
“Water has always been something that I care deeply about, and I'm very aware of its limits on this planet. If we don't change our behavior around water, water will become as valuable as oil. That is a given. When people don't understand that, I'm surprised.”

Source : Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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