"I love fiction. I like reading short stories. Cupcakes, pop songs, Polaroids, and short stories. They all raise and answer questions in a short space. I like Lorrie Moore. Amy Hempel. Tim O'Brien. Raymond Carver. All the heartbreakers."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Laurel Nakadate

#Song Quotes #Reading Quotes #Heart Quotes

“I'm not one who can write out a speech and remember all the names of the people that you need to thank because you need to thank all of those people.”
“A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.”
“I said that the only way I could have a band that would work in the format of my show is if the band were crap. So if I have a band they'd have to really suck.”
“Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily”
“You see, everyone in that locker-room gotta pager. And everyone that looks at that pager, sees the three-one-six, so their ***** belongs to me.”
“If young people had love, hope, true education, the arts, full and meaningful lives they won’t join gangs. My life since living the gang and drugs has been directed to making positive what it means to be Chicano, human, man, woman, and on how to draw out the imagination and creativity that all people have.”

Source : Interview with Elvira Carrizal-Dukes, www.epl.org. June 29, 2011.
“The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to.”
“I see the experience of pictures as a kind of cycle, a kind of circular motion in which you're in the world, then you enter the picture and you're in a different world (it's not the same as the one you live in, but recognizable as one you might live in). And then you're returned to your world with an enlarged sense of its possibilities.”

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