"Music I do just for me."

-- Jeremy Renner

“If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have to change your opinions or who you are, but it's good to ask the questions.”
“A flower is a daisy chain, a graduation, a valentine; a flower is New Year's Eve and an orchid in your hair; a flower is a single geranium blooming in a tin can on a murky city fire-escape; an acre of roses at the Botanical Gardens; and the first gold crocus of spring! ... a flower is a birth, a wedding, a leaving of this life.”
“Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.”
“Even if someone knew the entire physical history of the world, and every mental event were identical with a physical, it would notfollow that he could predict or explain a single mental event (so described, of course).”
“Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.”

Source : Siri Hustvedt (2010). “The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves”, p.136, Macmillan
“Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.”
“Fertilizer played a greater role in this case than computers.”
“If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.”

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