"Art - I had never thought of that as a career because it was like something I did so naturally, and it was fluid, and it is. And even though I still admire literature as the superior art form, I have to admit that art, for me, that's it; that's what I'm good at, and that's what I should be concentrating on."

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Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

#Art Quotes #Literature Quotes #Admire Quotes

“It is an ideology born out of hatred and its adherents belong to no religion, culture or civilisation.”
“Soon will set in the fitful weather, with fierce gales and sullen skies and frosty air, and it will be time to tuck up safely my roses and lillies and the rest for their winter sleep beneath the snow, where I never forget them, but ever dream of their wakening in happy summers yet to be.”
“I'd rather die standing than live on my knees.”
“A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.”
“I can play a Jewish guy, another Jewish guy, and then another Jewish guy, and then maybe a Cuban guy. Or at least a Middle Eastern guy. But for me, they're all Jews.”
“I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.”
“I love comedy and I hope I never stop doing it.”
“The most obvious feature of the brain is that it is not homogeneous, but composed of different regions. There are no intrinsic moving parts, no obvious way of knowing where to start to understand what is actually happening, or what functions are taking place.”

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