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-- William Kraft

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“I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.”

Source : Interview with Amy Goodman, progressive.org. June 28, 2013.
“Reality, like God and History, tends to direct people to wherever they want to go.”
“Marvin Gaye said there's a song inside of me and I can't get it out. And I know it's in there, and I can feel that it's in there, and I can't get it out. There's so much that I want to say, and I haven't been able to figure out how to say it in my art. I can only say it in ham-fisted, clumsy, nonpoetic ways, and I'm trying to figure out how to talk about life and talk about love and talk about pain and trials and tribulation in an artistic form.”
“For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?”
“When you are in a bad production there are two things you can do. You can do your best or you can leave. I chose to do the third thing which was sulk.”
“I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?”
“My family suffered. My hair turned up in every corner, every drawer, every meal. Even in the rice puddings Tessie made, covering each little bowl with wax paper before putting it away in the fridge--even into these prophylactically secure desserts my hair found its way! Jet black hairs wound themselves around bars of soap. They lay pressed like flower stems between the pages of books. They turned up in eyeglass cases, birthday cards, once--I swear--inside an egg Tessie had just cracked. The next-door neighbor's cat coughed up a hairball one day and the hair was not the cat's.”
“I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I want to be known as a nice and normal person, but my skills are a little more excelled.”

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