"The book is not a cut-and-paste job. Yeah, I have a blog, but the material in the book is all new. The blog deals with my life now, whereas as the book starts a few years before my birth until right about the end of junior high. And yes, I am contractually obliged to mention this as much as possible (each time I do, HarperCollins sends me a free pizza)."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Jason Mulgrew

#Jobs Quotes #Book Quotes #Cutting Quotes

“It sounds a little clichÃ©, but I wanted to capture some of the feelings or sounds that I heard when I listened to music that actually took me places.”
“William F. Buckley, Jr. does not speak so much as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable.”
“Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember.”
“Religion without joy-it is no religion.”
“If I wasnt a designer, I would love to be a doctor. That is my fantasy, my dream. A doctor will give you a tablet if you have a headache, and I will give you a dress, and we both make you feel good.”
“Legions of young hip-hop fans are as against this as hip-hop's most fierce critics. There is a huge underground movement within hip-hop circles that against these representation. You can hear this message on tons of lyrics and rap songs produced by independent emcees. But they are fighting against a well-oiled and well-financed machine.”
“Works of art are viewed by people. They are heard by people. They are felt by people. They are not just the fodder of a close-knit group of initiates. They are the soul food of all people.”
“I don't want to make pompous, serious films.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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