"Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination..."

-- Mary Oliver

#Lonely Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Matter Quotes

“What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?”
“The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.”
“I don't listen to a lot of music any more and even the people I've loved for years - the Nick Drakes of this world - I can't go back to them and listen to them over and over.”

Source : "Joshua Bell’s Virtuoso Reality". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May 2011.
“Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.”
“I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.”
“Don't worry about it. It's just a bunch of guys with an odd-shaped ball.”
“Those who believe patriotism to be the last refuge of the scoundrel have underestimated compassion.”
“I've done loads of things people have never seen - dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush - and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.”

Source : "Rafe Spall: from fat to fit". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2013.

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