"When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge."

-- Tuli Kupferberg

#Change Quotes #Broken Quotes #Patterns Quotes

“In one's garden a person may be one's own artist without apology or explanation. Here is one spot where each may experience the romance of possibility.”
“Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children. They could reach me, but I wasn't always there. But, you know, that's not necessarily anything to do with being a writer. I mean, a taxi driver could have the same problem... Maybe.”
“When in doubt, err on the side of generosity.”
“It is good to come to a country you know practically nothing about. Your thoughts grow still, useless. Everything must be rebuilt. In a country you know nothing about, there is no reference point. You struggle to associate colors, smells, dim memories. You live a little like a child, or an animal. Objects and events may bring things to mind, but in the end they remain no more than what they are in fact. They begin only when you experience them, vanish when others follow.”

Source : Andrzej Stasiuk (2011). “On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe”, p.79, HMH
“It's a simple and an effective way of getting everyone on the same page, prepared and paying attention to the gag. People just get into that frame of mind of you doing impressions. It can take a minute or two for an audience to catch on when you aren't doing one.”
“Most actors have to sit by the phone and wait for somebody to call them up to audition and stuff. I don't think I can exist in Hollywood just on that. I think I need to be proactive and making sure that things I really want to do are being developed to the point where somebody wants to make them.”
“I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.”
“We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts.”

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