"The idea of a talent that was bigger than an artist's ability to choose to use it, that would dictate the artist's life more than the artist could dictate, was interesting to me."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Alexander Chee

#Artist Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”

Source : "The Priest". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. March 4, 2010.
“I'm still waiting to hit it big. But there was the moment when I didn't have to work at the restaurant anymore, which is the milestone for every actor. When your job is just to be an actor and not to have to do anything else.”
“Christianity has not failed. It is simply that nations have failed to try it. There would be no war in a God-directed world.”
“At 9 years old I weighed about 10 lbs. less than what my weight is at 32. I needed to get help.”
“I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.”
“I'm always writing music. I sort of do it obsessively, for good or for bad. It's good that it keeps me going, but it's bad because it really is sort of like an obsession where you can't stop sometimes and it'll keep you up at night and ruin your weekend.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“A hacker doesnt deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.”
“Over all, there are now more people under â€œcorrectional supervisionâ€ in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.”

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