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Phoebe Gloeckner
"It always seems to people that I'm avoiding saying, 'It's autobiographical,' but I really do believe that human beings make stories and they make themselves. If I told you the same story twelve years ago, I could have emphasized something different. The importance changes, the meaning of things shifts over time. Also, I think all art is autobiographical. Every endeavor is full of impressions of ourselves." --
Source : "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.
Phoebe Gloeckner
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“Associate only with positive, focused people who you can learn from and who will not drain your valuable energy with uninspiring attitudes. By developing relationships with those committed to constant improvement and the pursuit of the best that life has to offer, you will have plenty of company on your path to the top of whatever mountain you seek to climb.”
“Ricky Gervais is a genius.”
“They are Nietzsche's over-men, these primitive Albanians - something between kings and tigers.”
“If you consider, for example, that democracy is much like a religion then 9/11 is akin to finding the body of God.”
Source : "Some Recent RAW Stories". Comment #40, www.bradblog.com. July 8, 2005.
“The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.”
“When alchemists first learned how to distill spirits, they called it aqua vitae, the water of life, and far from considering it the work of the devil, they thought the discovery was divinely inspired.”
Source : "Good Spirits". Book by Gene Logsdon, 1999.
“Sam took another sip of the pruno. It went down smoother this time, possibly because he no longer had feeling in his extremities.”
“Children are resilient and strong with powerful spirits.”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.