"When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you throw yourself into."

-- Bryan Lee O'Malley

#Book Quotes #Other Worlds Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“We stand before God's wonder and yet we are disinterested and bored. This should not be.”
“Tradition was safety; change was danger.”

Source : Mary Doria Russell (1996). “The Sparrow”, Random House
“In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom they are applied; but in their descendants they are too often the marks rather of grandeur than of merit. The stamp and denomination still continue, but the intrinsic value is frequently lost.”
“Of course, screening for HIV did essentially eliminate the transmission of this virus by transfusions.”

Source : Serge Lang (1998). “Challenges”, p.618, Springer Science & Business Media
“Do you know what directors go through? It's just hell. Like, why do I work so hard - to think I'm only going to see this movie five times and then never see it again 'cause I'm so sick of it? What is it worth, honestly?”
“In chess the most unbelievable thing for me is that it's a game for everybody: rich, poor, girl, boy, old, young. It's a fantastic game which can unite people and generations! It's a language which you'll find people "speak" in every country. If you reach a certain level you find a very rich world! Art, sport, logic, psychology, a battlefield, imagination, creativity not only in practical games but don't forget either how amazing a feeling it is to compose a study, for example (unfortunately that's not appreciated these days but it's a fantastic part of chess!).”
“When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a happy area in this music, which is lyrical and passionate at the same time.”
“The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.”

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