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Jessica Abel

"I haven't really lost faith in my work - other than for quite short periods when the work is harder than usual - but I have hit points where I want to quit because cartooning is just too hard, too demanding an art form. Basically, there's nothing to be done about that but to keep going (if you're in the middle of something), or stop for a while and do other things while you wait for your motivation to return."

Source : "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

Jessica Abel

#Art Quotes #Motivation Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“The combination of population growth and the growth in consumption is a danger that we are not prepared for and something we will need global co-operation on.”

Source : "Maurice Strong on climate 'conspiracy', Bilberberg and population control". Interview with Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2010.
“We can learn to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about gay people. The same way we have learned to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about shellfish, about slavery, about dinner, about farming, about menstruation, about virginity, about masturbation.”
“Iâ€™ve been friends with all these people for so many years nowâ€¦. Iâ€™m so lucky to have Jennifer [Lawrence] and Josh [Hutcherson] and Woody [Harrelson] and all these other great people. Weâ€™ve created really strong bonds. Itâ€™s like high school because weâ€™ll mess around for half the day and then weâ€™ll do a little bit of work. Everyoneâ€™s goofing around and trying to mess each other up.”
“Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark.”
“Antichrist is Mammon's son.”
“The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life, there being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence.”
“It takes a lot to become a foster parent.”
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”

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