"That's silly, Anna," said the Honorable Olive. "Being afraid is silly, you know it is."

-- Eva Ibbotson

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“I had a doctorate in biological anthropology. I got a post-doc at CWRU dental school in 1983 teaching gross anatomy.”
“You are as safe with me as you would be in the Bank of England.”
“My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records.”
“I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term.”
“A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions be, My friend must hate the man that injures me.”
“Poetry is probably the one field of writing in which it is a mistake to try to psych out editors. In fact, specific marketing advice can sometimes harm the novice poet by enticing him to pursue fashions. The poet's best hope is to sound like nobody else, The finest, most enduring poetry constructs a marketplace of its own.”
“I was a guest at CalArts. John Baldessari invited me out a few times. I've been there. I've been in Pasadena, taught out at Boulder, University of Colorado. And I've taught in Europe. I've lectured and taught. I've taught at the Ã‰cole des Beaux-Arts in Nigne [sp]. I was there for a couple of weeks, I was there. I've taught all over - in Switzerland, Germany.”
“You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.”

Source : "Alone with the Man in Black". Interview with Louisa Young, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2003.

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