"I'd always meant to become a musician. I'd just never gotten around to it. And my daughter being born, I was like, Okay, this is seriously the last chance. And also: Do you really want to be a dad who never did what he wanted to do? You've got to set an example now. You've got to do this."

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Source : Source: www.esquire.com

Jonathan Coulton

#Daughter Quotes #Dad Quotes #Musician Quotes

“We cannot put cinema in parallel with the political, because politics are something dirty and cinema is not dirty.”

Source : "Charisma Personified: Meeting Ali Suliman at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival". Interview with E. Nina Rothe, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2014.
“First of all, I don't think of myself as a northern Michigan writer. I think of myself as an American writer who happens - and yes, by choice, and for a long time now - to live in this particular place, and where, as the joke goes, there are only three seasons: July, August, and winter.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Not becoming 'something' scares me the most. I just want to be remembered for something great.”
“A teacher in search of his/her own freedom may be the only kind of teacher who can arouse young persons to go in search of their own”

Source : Maxine Greene “The Dialectic of Freedom”, Teachers College Press
“Sign is a live, contemporaneous, visual-gestural language and consists of hand shapes, hand positioning, facial expressions, and body movements. Simply put, it is for me the most beautiful, immediate, and expressive of languages, because it incorporates the entire human body.”
“A little humour is good for the soul - regardless of how old you may be.”
“For every finish-line tape a runner breaks -- complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras -- there are the hours of hard and often lonely work that rarely gets talked about.”
“I could never live without artwork. It's a constant inspiration.”

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