"I like to work in the real world, so I do a lot of searching or just simple looking. But I'm not above tweaking reality and making something up. I don't think there are any rules in art. It's not so much what you see as it is the significance you, the artist, see in it."

-- Keith Carter

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“To the world you may be just one person but to one person you may be the world The road to finding 'the one' is paved with a bit of promiscuity.”
“I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.”
“Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother, are fortunate enough to die swiftly and suddenly, in full possession of our faculties and our fate, but more and more of us will be condemned to linger, at the mercy of anxious or indifferent relatives, careless strangers, unwanted medical interventions, increasing debility, incontinence, memory loss. We live too long, but, like the sibyl hanging in her basket in the cave at Cumae, we find it hard to die.”
“The casting directors that were aware of The Real World looked at me as a joke. It was so hard to get away from that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes".
“And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot.”
“(The mainstream media) are so vested in our first black president not being a failure that it's going to be amazing to watch the lengths they go to to protect him. They, I believe, will spout this racist line if some of their colleagues up here aren't doing it aggressively enough. There is going to be a real desperation.”
“Whenever I begin reading a new book, I am embarking on a new, uncharted journey with an unmarked destination. I never know where a particular book will take me, toward what other books I will be led.”

Source : Nancy Pearl (2009). “Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason”, p.11, Sasquatch Books
“Leave the woodpile higher than you found it.”

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