"The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply 'give the customers what they want' is nonsense. What the customers wanted they didn't get - and they left."

-- Scott McCloud

#Book Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Giving Quotes

“The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.”
“If a comedian tells a joke that you find funny, you laugh. If he tells a joke you do not find funny, dont laugh. Or you could possibly go as far as groaning or rolling your eyes. Then you wait for his next joke; if thats funny, then you laugh. If its not, you dont laugh - or at very worst, you can leave quietly.”

Source : "If you don't want to hear an edgy joke, don't listen" By Gilbert Gottfried, www.cnn.com. July 16, 2012.
“Stockbrokers aren't too interested in a stock you can sit there for five years with.”
“It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.”
“Robert Louis Stevenson...was a storyteller, that's what I'd like to be, that's what I'm trying to be”
“Be sure thy sin will find thee out.”
“My father's a musician and my mother's a singer. My dad's originally from Brooklyn and he was a Latin percussionist so I've always had instruments around the house. He used to have a show like a 1950s rock and roll show with Little Richard music. They would do doo-wop songs and stuff like that.”
“Through a portrait, we can potentially see everything â€” the history and depth of a person's life, as well as evidence of a primal universal presence. I have dedicated my life and creative energy to capturing these transcendent moments in which a connection is made between the subject, the photographer, and the viewer.”

Source : "Dialogues with Great Photographers - Joyce Tenneson". Interview with Kyle Harris, www.hlphotogallery.com.

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