"Sometimes what I'm looking for is the thing that will help renew people's interest in a writer that they may have written off as not their kind of writer."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

John D'Agata

#People Quotes #May Quotes #Helping Quotes

“Introvert conversations are like jazz. Each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo.”
“Eliminate the mindset of can't! Because you can do anything!”
“Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.”
“I think Gina Rowlands is an amazing actress.”

Source : "Q&A:'Breaking Dawn" costar Angela Sarafyan on finding her 'American Animal'". Interview with Matt Patches, www.mtv.com. May 18, 2012.
“Girls donâ€™t really recognize me on the street. No one has tried to serenade me or rip my shirt off.”
“What I wanted was just to make music, and so, originally I just wanted to hide behind the album cover of the last record, and I wanted it to be almost anonymous.”
“Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.”

Source : Curt Sachs (2008). “The Rise of Music in the Ancient World, East and West”, p.311, Courier Corporation
“Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.”

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