"You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you."

-- Maggie Gyllenhaal

#Inspire Quotes #Good Work Quotes

“The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . . Does not see the graves under the flowers.”
“I know all we're doing is travelling without moving. Speed freak faster than a speedin' bullet, slow down. If I don't, I might just lose it, locked up. You've got me honey, locked up under heavy brakin', yeah. You know I've got to hang on, drive too fast, I might be last.”
“Our tradition in this country has not been to deny health information to interested individuals when they claim that they can handle it and are willing to pay for the cost of getting it.”
“When death comes, we take off our clothes and gather everything we left behind: what is dark, broken, touched with shame. When Death demands we give an accounting, naked we present our lives in bundles. See how much these weigh, we tell him, refusing to deny what we have lived. Everything that is touched by light loves the light. We the stubborn-as-grass, we who reel at the taste of sap and want our spirits cleansed, will not betray the weeds, snake, or crippled mare. Never leave behind what the light shone on.”

Source : Linda Gregg (1991). “Sacraments of Desire”, Graywolf Press
“I believe that we are fundamentally the same and have the same basic potential.”
“Self-consciousness can destroy a performance. Getting rid of that is always good.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If those who support aggressive war had seen a fraction of what I've seen, if they'd watched children fry to death from Napalm and bleed to death from a cluster bomb, they might not utter the claptrap they do.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2005.
“I'd rather people interpret the songs and get whatever they can out of them instead of thinking about me crying in a room with a guitar.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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