"Creativity is not passive, I don't see the creation of art as passive."

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James Kelman

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“If you are not a skater, you probably can't imagine what I mean. I could try to tell you by saying it's a feeling of ice miles running under your blades, the wind splitting open to let you through, the earth whirling around you.It's a sense of power, of command over distance and gravity, and an illusion of no longer having to move because movement is carrying you.”

Source : Sonja Henie (1940). “Wings on my feet”
“A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.”
“No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.”
“I'm drawn again and again to relationships between people who really, really want to connect and just can't get out of their own way to do it.”
“On the policy front, I just believe that Barack Obama was misguided. That he somehow sees this country as being in need of a drastic overhaul. What he tried to do actually hurt the country rather than helped it and the best example is Obamacare. It's a good idea to insure people who can't or won't buy insurance but you can't punish the working class to make it happen, which he did. Now everybody's paying higher premiums and more deductibles that's coming out of working people's pockets and that's one of the reasons that his legacy has been refuted.”
“The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.”
“It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.”
“A new dress. Is this all it takes to make a new beginning, this shred of dyed cloth, shaped into the form of a woman's body?”

Source : Linda Grant (2008). “The Clothes On Their Backs: A Novel”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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