"The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd."

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Source : "Natalie Merchant On Motherhood As Muse". Interview with Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2012.

Natalie Merchant

#Nerd Quotes #Phases Quotes #Research Quotes

“Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing.”
“I feel as though I haven't seen an object until I actually start painting it.”
“Africa has a genious for extremes, for the beginning and the end. It seems simultaneously connected to some memory of Eden and to some foretaste of apocalypse. Nowhere is day more vivid or night darker. Nowhere are forests more luxuriant. Nowhere is there a continent more miserable”
“To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.”
“I've seen rock stars agonize over the fact that another artist has far more Facebook 'likes' and Twitter followers than they do.”
“If my boss knew how unproductive I am on Fridays, he wouldn't want me here either.”
“I hate working with artists who don't have something to say or when they have something that sounds cool but isn't really them.”

Source : Source: www.complex.com
“Hard work IS its own reward. Integrity IS priceless. Art DOES feed the soul.”

Source : Marcus Samuelsson, Veronica Chambers (2012). “Yes, Chef: A Memoir”, p.204, Random House

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