"I have something more to do than to feel."

-- Charles Lamb

“[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.”
“I'm shooting a pilot based on my show. It's a one-camera show. I play myself.”
“Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.”
“You're born in a certain time, your budvi, or the way to mind, or the psyche of it all, understands the time in which you were born, and so already information is adapted by the mind of a person born in a certain time, that's why we're so different from our parents, and our parents from theirs.”
“To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter. But matter is an abstraction of exactly the same kind, just as good and just as bad as it is. We know as much about the soul as we do of matter.”

Source : Ernst Mach (2014). “History and Root of the Principle of the Conservation of Energy”, p.48, Cambridge University Press
“For the longest time, I was just playing music and not really expecting any success - just kind of doing it because I liked doing it. While doing that, I went on a lot of shitty tours, playing to nobody, so I think it makes me appreciate it. Our band the New Pornographers have been popular for a few years now, but it still shocks me. I remember thinking we were hugely popular when we sold 15,000 records, and now this one sold 30,000 in two weeks. I'm grateful for the whole thing.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“In Kurdistan, theres a lot of hardship - a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director.”
“There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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