"If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river."

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Source : Anchee Min (2001). “Becoming Madame Mao”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Anchee Min

#Opportunity Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Want Quotes

“One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it.”

Source : Ernst Hans Gombrich (1978). “The Story of Art”
“We are what we seem to be.”
“To be creative, first I need to be really organized. If my apartment's messy I need to clean it. It's like before you start doing your homework or studying for a test, you have to have a clean room.”
“I want every character be an outsider in some way.”
“One thing that I think never goes out of style is just purity. Niceness and purity. And the Muppets have never lost that. Kermit especially is just wide-eyed wonder, unblinking. And he cant blink. Which I think probably helps.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I certainly didn't predict people who spent years actively disliking the band to all of a sudden like the band. That's pretty funny to me, and it makes playing live kind of interesting, 'cos we're doing lots of things that don't really have a lot to do with that record, and even presenting the songs off that record in a way that's a little more muscular and without as much of the sheen, which is what I think part of what people really liked [about Kaputt].”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com
“Right now, nearly all the apps on Facebook take a week to build. No more.”
“Plans are things that change.”

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