"A bud is a flower-to-be. A flower in waiting. Waiting for just the right warmth and care to open up. It's a little fist of love waiting to unfold and be seen by the world. And that's you."

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Source : Christopher Paul Curtis, Holt Rinehart & Winston (2002). “Bud, not Buddy: with connections”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

Christopher Paul Curtis

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“I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.”
“I'm self-conscious in photo shoots. I much prefer to do interviews and talk about the work.”
“... suddenly I was a kid in the hall standing outside my locker about to head to Math. But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. That's when all the real things were said.”
“Cornelius Cardew very famous in Britain, because he was the darling of the avant-garde, and he played in a band called AMM, which was an improvising band in the '60s. Paul McCartney used to come watch them. Later on in life, he became disenchanted with avant-garde music, because he felt it couldn't reach the public. It didn't have a wide enough appeal. So he'd take these tunes of old English folk songs and write Stalinist lyrics over the top of them. I do think that when he changed to folk songs, he actually lost the tiny audience he already had, which is quite interesting.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“And they did it with something that is basicly worthless in our society - pennies. But overseas, pennies can move mountains”
“To be influential in tomorrow's world, to defend our values and our development model, France needs Europe and Europe needs France.”

Source : "François Hollande: 'Ally Does Not Mean Aligned'". Interview with Alexandre Devecchio, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2012.
“The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out of the pale of true literary civilization - which is now waiting to be taught the difference between a good book and a bad.”
“The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters the reader will have strong feelings for or against. It is not finding a setting which will take the reader to a place he or she as never been. It is not the research, whether in fiction or non-fiction. The most difficult task facing a writer is to find the voice in which to tell the story.”

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