"Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are"

-- Jeannette Walls

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Care Quotes

“Writing songs, that's what gets me going. Not the drugs or the sex or the rock'n'roll behaviour, it's the music.”
“"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.”
“Being Americans, we prosecute wars to win them, not to have reasonable response, not to have appropriate levels of retaliation. Our theory is you start bombing our cities; we're going to defeat you and make it impossible.”
“Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!”
“This religion teaches that 6,000 years ago God made the first man out of dust - not even mud - and the first woman out of a bone; that God cursed the whole human race because a snake made the woman eat an apple; that God had a son by another man's wife, and that he had this son murdered in order to keep himself from sending all the human race to hell.”
“Everything comes from a weird place that I don't understand. I make a piece of art just to prove that I exist in my own way. And I can't make something nice. I have to make something that makes me uncomfortable.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I never saw myself not being a stand-up. That was my plan.”
“People ask me how long it took to make a work. I reply by giving them my age.”

Source : Ted Godwin, Luther Pokrant (2002). “The Studio Handbook for Working Artists: A Survival Manual”, p.72, University of Regina Press

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