"Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes."

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Ira Levin

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“My very first car was a grey Alfa Romeo Alfasud, which I got in 1987. But, in our family, all cars were for sale - so they might be there in the morning and were gone at night. In the mid-90s, I joined Porsche and the Carrera was the car, and the Carrera 4S was the one they gave me. As a wee boy from Dumfries, I couldn't believe it.”
“Amongst the instrumentalities of love and peace, surely there can be no sweeter, softer, more effective voice than that of gentle, peace-breathing music.”
“You canâ€™t coach desire, and no matter how fancy your training plan or how high your stated goals are, it comes down to getting out the door and doing the work day after day.”
“What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?”
“Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.”
“Learning and sex until rigor mortis.”
“It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent.”
“I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.”

Source : "Transforming the World through Art". Academy of Achievement Interview, June 3, 2006.

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