"I don't believe in the art-for-art's-sake philosophy. With the raw material before me and the gifts within me, I did my best to celebrate the voices and intelligence and sweetness and dreams of the children in spite of their chaotic, outer worlds."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Uwem Akpan

#Dream Quotes #Art Quotes #Children Quotes

“I'd witnessed for the first time in my vampire- obsessed existence an actual vampire bite. The only problem was that it wasn't my neck being bitten.”

Source : Ellen Schreiber (2011). “Vampire Kisses 8: Cryptic Cravings”, p.6, Harper Collins
“Persuading people through technology is the next social revolution. Facebook demonstrates just how powerful it will be.”
“You come there and hang out and have a drink before the show and eat, so it's not that brutal. It's only $6.”
“I wanna be a nice guy.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“One could think of a person who seems to have two opposing and contradictory sides to his personality; but it turns out that in the end the two sides are complementary. The same happens with an artist's work: deep down, what appear as contradictory sides are merely different registers, different aspects of the reality that the artist inhabits”

Source : Susan Kismaric, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1997). “Manuel Alvarez Bravo”
“I'm no diva but I can be annoying in a recording studio. Of course I try to be a diva in terms of confidence of performance and owning a song but I've never behaved like one in terms of the negative connotations of the word.”
“But what if you're wrong? What if there's more? What if there's hope you never dreamed of hoping for? What if you jump? And just close your eyes? What if the arms that catch you, catch you by surprise? What if He's more than enough? What if it's love?”

Source : Song: What If
“Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment â€” the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.”

Source : Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley (2004). “Aleph and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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