"I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment."

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Source : "Jonathan Ames Talks HBO’s “Bored To Death,” Life In Brooklyn, And Wanting To Be Like Matt Damon". Interview with David Weiner, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2011.

Jonathan Ames

#Worry Quotes #Age Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Look may be that everything is right, it is always best to have an inspection before marching. To forget a screw, if you have a loose one, and only discover your loss when you are miles from home and the view before you is "perfect", is to promote, possibly suicide, certainly profanity.”

Source : Henry Peach Robinson (2010). “Letters on Landscape Photography”, p.30, Hol Art Books
“I might have practiced stick-handling with my head up a bit more.”
“Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and giving these talks.”
“Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.”
“I feel like math and writing are the same thing. You're putting together a lot of complex things to satisfy different requirements. It's got to be aesthetically pleasing; it's got to have subtext; it's got to convey information.”
“Can you go cazy without knowing you're crazy?”
“I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The few surviving Armenians no longer ask to go home. They do not ask for restitution. They ask simply to have the memory of their obliteration acknowledged. It is a moral obsession, the lonely legacy passed onto the third and fourth generation who no longer speak Armenian but who carry within them the seeds of resentment that will not be quashed.”

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