"The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none"

-- Holly Hunter

#Careers Quotes #Silent Quotes #Static Quotes

“I've always gotten along best with artists.”
“On a practical level, I'm uncomfortable at comedy clubs because there are so many shitty dude comics who have made my life miserable. If I go to a comedy club and I look around, I don't know which of the dudes lining the wall told me that I was too fat to get raped. It makes me nauseous. But that was a couple years ago, and meanwhile, comedy has changed a lot.”
“It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.”
“Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.”
“I try to write each piece in the language of the piece, so that I'm not using the same language from piece to piece. I may be using ten or twenty languages. That multiplicity of language and the use of words is African in tradition. And black writers have definitely taken that up and taken it in. It's like speaking in tongues. It may sound like gibberish to somebody, but you know it's a tongue of some kind. Black people have this. We have the ability as a race to speak in tongues, to dream in tongues, to love in tongues.”
“There is no time to fool around when you practice. Every drillÂ must have a purpose. I try to never get away from thathabits are important”
“It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.”
“You know, son, I don't think there's such a thing as an easy life. There's always going to be hard work and there will always be misfortunes we can't control, lurking out at the edges - storms, sickness, wolves. But there is such a thing as a good life and I think that we have one here.”

Source : Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.625, Random House Books for Young Readers

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