"It's possible to do your best work at your highest level without competing. I'm not anticompetition, but at an individual level, it can be degrading for both sides. And it doesn't have to be that way. I've done pretty well at getting past that sort of thing, and it's a relief not to have the rancor."

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Source : Interview with John O’Connor, www.believermag.com. December 2004.

Raymond Pettibon

#Past Quotes #Way Quotes #Sides Quotes

“My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“You can't change the feeling but you can change your feelings about the feeling in a second or two”
“A book can never be anything more than the impression of its authorâ€™s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in the matter about which he has thought, or in the form in which he develops his matter â€” that is to say, what he has thought about it.”
“I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.”
“If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.”
“It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have that debate.”
“Then, everlasting Love , restrain thy will; 'Tis god -like to have power, but not to kill.”
“Having the urge to write is one thing; acting on it is another.”

Source : Roy Peter Clark (2011). “Help! For Writers: 210 Solutions to the Problems Every Writer Faces”, p.10, Hachette UK

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