"First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it."

-- David Ogilvy

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“Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident - in the most audacious way - in His Fatherly goodness.”
“Things are changing at such a rate that you really can't get too familiar with anything that you own in relation to what sort of functionality it has in your life.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.”
“For me, writing music is a way of processing the world. It's not a concrete thing, as in, "This piece is about giraffes." It's much more of an emotional sort of thing. I want people to find something out about themselves through my music, something that was inaccessible before, something that they were suppressing, something that they couldn't really confront.”
“I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.”

Source : "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.
“I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish.”
“Pride comes before a fall- although in [Henry Kissinger's] case it's more conceit than pride.”
“In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor because it is the universal language, but because it is the persistent focus of our intelligence, aspiration and goodwill.”

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