"The point of Berlin was that it seemed that only people like you ran the city. You never ran into people who weren't like you - especially when you lived as that kind of American in Berlin connected to the arts."

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Source : Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2016.

Darryl Pinckney

#Art Quotes #Cities Quotes #People Quotes

“The success of any development project is based on encouraging people to shoulder their own responsibilities and become aware of their own capacities, their rights too, rather than providing them with ready-made solutions.”
“I feel quite unable to adopt the opinion that the moment goods pass into the possession of the consumer they cease altogether to have the attributes of capital.”
“You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you.”
“What matters is the value weâ€™ve created in our lives, the people weâ€™ve made happy and how much weâ€™ve grown as people.”
“Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingredients. You can start with the world you've got.”

Source : Catherine Ryan Hyde (2014). “Pay It Forward: Young Readers Edition”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
“Yeah, I love doing ensemble pieces. You get to meet so many new people and make new friends.”
“Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A monumental decision such as starting a family requires persuasive dissertations, licences, spreadsheets and field research. That's what I assumed until one night when we were lying in bed and, if I recall correctly, I asked Tracy if we were ready to have a family now, and she said sure. That was it.”

Source : Ryan Knighton (2010). “C'mon Papa: Dispatches from a Dad in the Dark”, p.9, Knopf Canada

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