"We can, after all, learn much from lessons we did not sign up for."

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Source : Alexander Jablokov (1994). “The Breath of Suspension”, Arkham House Pub

Alexander Jablokov

#Entrepreneur Quotes #Lessons Quotes

“I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?”

Source : Georges Bataille (1972). “My mother”, Jonathan Cape
“I think in my car somebody is playing with the pressure and the temperatures,”
“I work with whatever mediums seems best suited to evoking the sorts of thoughts and emotions I am interested in playing with.”

Source : The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.
“Goals should be impossible! You should tread FEARLESSLY where the brave dare not go.”

Source : Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.
“Hey, look at this!" He holds up a glistening, perfect pearl about the size of a pea. "You know, if you put enough pressure on coal it turns to pearls," he says earnestly to Finnick. "No, it doesn't," says Finnick dismissively. But I crack up, remembering that's how a clueless Effie Trinket presented us to the people of the Capitol last year, before anyone knew us. As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.”
“I have played several characters that are crabby and cranky. I don't know if I'm just not a very well-developed human being or if I don't know myself very well, but I tend to find I can take on elements of the characters that I'm playing. When I was playing a character like Becky Freeley in Miss Guided found that I was insanely positive and happy all the time.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.”
“As soon as me and Willow started releasing music, thatâ€™s one thing that the whole world took away is, okay, they unlocked another step of honesty. If these guys can be honest about everything, then we can be more honest,”

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