"I set myself challenges every time I work. Ideally, I approach everything as though it's the first time - with a beginner's mind and an amateur's love."

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Source : "Willem Dafoe: 'Don't make this into a crackpot profile, please'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2013.

Willem Dafoe

#Challenges Quotes #Mind Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.”
“if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well?”
“We lift ourselves by our thought.”
“Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.”

Source : "enator Pushes Bipartisan Seating Chart For State Of The Union" by Wes Barrett, www.foxnews.com. January 12, 2011.
“My songs emerge unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own...We have, all of us, over the years, written things that responded to the world as it slapped us in the face. Me and Nash, singing "To the Last Whale" and "Find the Cost of Freedom". Stills coming up with "For What It's Worth". These came right out of the news. People have accused us of taking stances and the truth is we don't.”
“In mathematics our role is more that of servant than master.”
“Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.”
“The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is better than no image at all. I think he will feel a good deal more kinship with backwoods prophets and shouting fundamentalists than he will with those politer elements for whom the supernatural is an embarrassment and for whom religion has become a department of sociology or culture or personality development.”

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