"If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope."

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Source : George Steiner (2010). “No Passion Spent”, p.224, Faber & Faber

#God Quotes #Faith Quotes #Hope Quotes

“Most comics are not truly rebellious or creatively free. Most comics, paintings, music, etc., are derivative of other, more successful works. And it's quite often that those without much rebellious spirit are the ones to imitate it. Genuine radical expression is hard to come by, but it usually crops up when money is not a motivating factor. You can take all the liberties you want when someone else's dime is not at stake. The validation is not a threat to comics. A far greater threat to the creative freedom of artists working in any medium is self-consciousness and self-censorship.”

Source : "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.
“So, the advice that I would always give is make sure you've got your own career, before you put your child in the business.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com
“I can control the weather with my moods. I just canâ€™t control my moods.”
“A giddy feeling, in a way, except there was the dreamy edge of impossibility to it - like running a dead-end maze - no way out - it couldn't come to a happy conclusion and yet I was doing it anyway because it was all I could think of to do.”
“Sometimes I think I might insult people by being openly flirtatious, then snatching it back.”
“Actors were the first people to accept me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The State is not the nation, and the State can be modified and even abolished in its present form, without harming the nation. On the contrary, with the passing of the dominance of the State, the genuine life-enhancing forces of the nation will be liberated.”

Source : Randolph Silliman Bourne (1919). “Untimely Papers”
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.”

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