"I was in school for literature, and read so many 19th century and early 20th century novels that it was hard to break out of that and read an average Jeanette Winterson book or something."

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

Colin Meloy

#Book Quotes #School Quotes #Average Quotes

“Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be filled with understanding and equipped with the gift of keen observation . . .”
“Prostitution is criminal, and bad things happen because it's run illegally by dirt-bags who are criminals. If it's legal, then the girls could have health checks, unions, benefits, anything any other worker gets, and it would be far better.”
“If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I love to see those paragliders weaving softly around Moon Point, their legs floating above you in the air. When they drift in for a landing, their feet touch the ground and they trot forward from the continued motion of the glider, which billows down like a setting sun. I never get tired of watching them and I've seen them thousands of times. I always wondered what that kind of freedom would feel like.”
“In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite.”
“Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do.”

Source : "Fear is the drug" by Judith Mackrell, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2006.
“Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises.”
“I haven't seen someone so overmatched since Mike Tyson tried to recite the alphabet.”

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