"As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more."

-- John Zorn

#Friends Quotes #Support Quotes #Attention Quotes

“Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.”
“There are many similarities between Germans and blacks. The nouns themselves are loaded with so much historical baggage it's impossible for anyone to be indifferent to the simple mention of either group. We're two insightful people looking for reasons to love ourselves; and let's not forget we both love pork and wear sandals with socks.”

Source : Paul Beatty (2008). “Slumberland: A Novel”, Bloomsbury USA
“God is good but not safe, and the urge for safe art is often a worldly temptation away from goodness.”
“Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside.”
“I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me, because it's not their profession to do that.”
“The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.”
“At a certain point, you must be able to slip loose. At a certain point, you found that you had been set free. You could be anyone, he thought. You could be anyone.”
“I think we just have to become more consistent.”

Source : Source: ftw.usatoday.com

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