"Roy Blount is so funny, and he sounds like he's just talking, and the next thing you know he has tossed off an essay as elegant and intricately structured as a birdsong. His ear for American speech is better than anybody's."

-- Ian Frazier

#Talking Quotes #Sound Quotes #Ears Quotes

“All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears - of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, of speaking before a Rotary Club, and of the words "Some Assembly Required".”
“I had to study acting to basically educate myself.”
“I am interested in solving an unknown factor of art and an unknown factor of life.”

Source : Vanessa Corby, Eva Hesse (2010). “Eva Hesse: Longing, Belonging and Displacement”, p.69, I.B. Tauris
“When we look for differences instead of similarities, we create barriers for trust.”
“I consider myself a patriot, but not for the traditional reasons. I'm just really passionate about apple pie.”
“Every child has inside him an aching void for excitement and if we don't fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and good for him, he will fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and which isn't good for him.”
“The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.”

Source : "Now, about that passport..." by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2002.
“I was doing someones hair the day I first saw my guitar ... a guy was walking down the street with it, and knew that guitar was mine (a 1953 weathered Fender Telecaster) .. I said I'll get you the most beautiful guitar you've ever seen and I'll trade you straight across ... I found him a purple Telecaster and said here's your guitar ... that was it, it was like he knew that guitar belonged to me.”

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