"To be different is a negative motive, and no creative thought or created thing grows out of a negative impulse. A negative impulse is always frustrating. And to be different means â€˜not like thisâ€™ and â€˜not like that.â€™ And the â€˜not likeâ€™â€”thatâ€™s why postmodernism, with the prefix of â€˜post,â€™ couldnâ€™t work. No negative impulse can work, can produce any happy creation. Only a positive one."

-- Eva Zeisel

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“Conservatives cannot govern well for the same reason that vegetarians cannot prepare a world-class boeuf bourguignon: If you believe that what you are called upon to do is wrong, you are not likely to do it very well.”

Source : "Republicans: good at theatre, dreadful at governing - as we'll see tomorrow" by Michael Tomasky, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2011.
“Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.”
“When all else is lost, the future still remains.”
“Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.”

Source : "The Book of Joe". Book by Jonathan Tropper, 2005.
“I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.”
“I made the school team, and when I won in a match against another school it was the greatest moment of my life even greater than the European titles. In those school races, I always ran my legs off. There were girls watching and I wanted to impress them. I was foaming and vomiting, but I won”
“The magic of playing live doesn't go away. Of course there are some shows where your energy level is low, or the sound is bad, but part of the joy is the challenge to bring this energy and realize it despite the physical circumstances.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“" ... What if?" Through the alchemy of those two words, something new comes into the world.”

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