"Everything is up for grabs, everything is relative. Except nothing is if you are serious about it because the moment you become serious about answering a question you have a stake in it. Relatively goes out of the window, in one sense because you're putting your a** out there - you are depending on the answer, you need the answer."

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Source : Source: classic.esquire.com

John Edgar Wideman

#Serious Quotes #Window Quotes #Moments Quotes

“I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.”
“When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.”

Source : "A Clockwork Orange". Book by Anthony Burgess, 1962.
“The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.”
“When do you feel most authentic? Authenticity feels so natural, so why isn't it easy?”
“That's what acting is - it's about having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.”
“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.”
“I don't want Christmas season to end, because it's the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.”

Source : "Paris in Love: A Memoir". Book by Eloisa James, April 3, 2012.
“Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.”

Source : "Tony Gilroy on The Bourne Legacy: 'Fear changes everything'" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2012.

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