"I like being on the margins. You work better there."

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Source : "The Importance of Being Childish". The Times, December 02, 2006.

Billy Childish

“Your customer is not your user”
“You never know when you start a project just how good it can be.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way. Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”

Source : Richard Wright (1998). “Black Boy”, Turtleback
“You don't bless what you love...It's when you want to love and you can't manage it. You stretch out your hands and you say God forgive me that I can't love but bless this thing anyway...We have to bless what we hate...It would be better to love, but that's not always possible.”
“Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new.”
“The first education should be the harmonious development of the child's physical, mental and spiritual powers. Providing warm and understanding responses to your children's 'hearts' accomplishes far more than pressuring book knowledge into their minds.”

Source : Raymond Moore, Dorothy Moore (1989). “Homestyle Teaching”, W Publishing Group
“The only thing I smoke is my competition”

Source : Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.15, Penguin
“You gotta realize that the whole fiasco of the environment, all this global warming hocus-pocus - which the only thing it's done is made Al Gore a multi-millionaire - but, what it's done is, it has been used as a way to curtail growth, to destroy the growth, exploration.”

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