"One measure of the greatness of a work is that the characters who play roles in the narrative feel its essential truth. As someone who is proud to have been there during much of the action David Sepkoski describes, I give his description and analysis of the history of paleobiology a five-star rating; to my mind, this actually was the way it was."

-- Niles Eldredge

#Stars Quotes #Character Quotes #Greatness Quotes

“When I was a kid, my mom once told me that God was an artist and how on occasion Heâ€™d throw a bucketful of paint across the sky for us all to see. I asked her why the paint disappeared by morning, and she told me that if the sky was always like that we might take it for granted. I suppose she was right. Maybe thatâ€™s what war is all aboutâ€”so we can appreciate times of peace.”
“To conquer fear is the best way to gain your self-confidence.”
“All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.”
“Oh noes, kitteh haz major angriez!â€ I said. I turned around to share a laugh with my companions and found them glaring at me. â€œWhat?â€ I asked. Leif shook a finger and said in a low, menacing tone, â€œIf you tell me I have to talk like an illiterate halfwit to fit into this society, I will punch you.â€ â€œAnd Iâ€™ll pull out your goatee,â€ Gunnar added. â€œLolcat iz new happeh wai 2 talk,â€ I explained to them. â€œU doan haz 2 be kitteh 2 speek it.”
“Folks out in the country couldn't afford to pay for anybody else to make music. They had to make their own. So the peasantry had their music, and it was about a hundred years ago given the name "Folk music".”
“There was a stage inside it and a crank on the outside that would rotate something, like a tiny tree carved of cork, onto the stage, and then the thousands of little mirrors would multiply that one tree so that the viewer would see an infinite forest instead.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them”
“Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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