"Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage."

-- Samuel Johnson

“Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.”

Source : Luis Alberto Urrea (2006). “The Hummingbird's Daughter: A Novel”, p.11, Hachette UK
“I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.”
“I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society.”
“I live in Vegas, and I see people by the side of the road with cardboard signs who seem like they might have tried that spending their way out of debt thing.”
“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.”
“When a musical act performs, the black audience goes crazy for all the stuff, the album cuts, everything. White audiences, they're nice and all, but they're not going to lose it until they get the hits. Comedy is the same thing.”
“I rejoice when I meet gifted young people... I feel the future is in good hands.”

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