"I'd always read a lot about rock 'n' roll growing up, but the first real thing I set out to do was become an English professor. Even so, I always hoped in some way or another that I would get to write about music in a popular - non-academic - format."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Anthony DeCurtis

#Growing Up Quotes #Real Quotes #Writing Quotes

“To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.”

Source : Interview with Carla Marinucci, www.sfgate.com. October 9, 2005.
“The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers.”
“. . . So I vowed to keep myself alive, but only if I would never use me again for just me - each one of us is born of two, and we really belong to each other. I vowed to do my own thinking, instead of trying to accommodate everyone else's opinion, credo's and theories. I vowed to apply my inventory of experiences to the solving of problems that affect everyone aboard planet Earth.”
“I could have told him that nothing was safe and that no matter how careful you were and how hard you tried, there were still accidents, hidden traps, and snares. You could get killed on an airplane or crossing the street. Your marriage could fall apart when you weren't looking; your husband could lose his job; our baby could get sick or die.”
“Youth is wholly experimental.”
“Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body... show your personality as much as possible.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.”
“I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting.”

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