"Obviously it was an out of body experience to win an Academy Award."

-- Roger Ross Williams

#Winning Quotes #Awards Quotes #Body Quotes

“I want to be respected as a writer and, like I said, I was really sick of people saying I was a two dimensional character. I want more to my legacy, I guess.”

Source : "Cakes, Saint, Love, & Hip Hop". Interview with Saint, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2014.
“The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.”
“First of all, I swore it was two people playing. When I finally admitted to myself that was one man, I gave up the piano for a month. I figured it was hopeless to practice.”
“Now, if you want to get rich, you have only to produce a product or service that will give people greater use value than the price you charge for it. How rich you get will be determined by the number of people to whom you can sell the product or service.”
“So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.”
“I always did each show for about two years. So if you play the music, it just comes back to me.”
“There's nobody between you and the print. Nobody. It's you and the subject and the final print. And if you get it published that way, you've said it.”
“The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it, even the circle most interested, into confusion.”

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