"If I feel like I'm writing from an agenda, that's when I throw something away. If I have a strategy I feel like I'm doing it for the wrong reasons."

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Source : Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. January 23, 2013.

Youth Lagoon

#Writing Quotes #Agendas Quotes #Strategy Quotes

“It [the memoir "In The Body of the World"] wrote me. I joke about it, but this book was so unusual. It just started to come out. I really feel like it came straight from my body. I think it was both an expression of what I had gone through, but also it just felt like everything had come together in my body and it needed to tell that story.”
“The devil has been defeated, stop trying to defeat him. What we have left is the fight of faith, and it's a good fight!”
“Consistency for me is everything.”
“Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.”

Source : "Transcript: ABC News' Martha Raddatz Interviews Tim Hetherington". Interview with Martha Raddatz, abcnews.go.com. September 14, 2010.
“I think people today are very cynical. They need to bring other people down. Reality television and tabloid magazinesÂ—never before did we need to see movie stars taking out their garbage. But all of a sudden, it's front-page newsÂ—trying to figure out who's dating whom, all that stuff. Who cares?”
“All of us, in a sense, struggle continuously all the time, because we never get what we want. The important thing which I've really learned is how do you not give up, because you never succeed in the first attempt.”
“Keep up your patient's spirits by music of viols and ten-stringed psaltery, or by forged letters describing the death of his enemies, or by telling him he has been elected to a bishopric, if a churchman.”

Source : Chirurgie
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”

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