"I guess you could say that Iâ€™m the luckiest girl because I got to meet my true hero. She was a precious person. She made me a better singer, a better person. She was the consummate artist and human being."

-- Dottie West

#Girl Quotes #Hero Quotes #Artist Quotes

“I hardly wear any makeup. TV and film makeup is very heavy, so it's nice to give my skin a break when I'm not filming. And I'm really grungy, probably too much so. Although when I go out, I love to dress very glamorous and quite sexy.”
“Obviously, where art has it over life is in the matter of editing. Life can be seen to suffer from a drastic lack of editing. It stops too quick, or else it goes on too long. Worse, its pacing is erratic. Some chapters are little more than a few sentences in length, while others stretch into volumes. Life, for all its raw talent, has little sense of structure. It creates amazing textures, but it can't be counted on for snappy beginnings or good endings either. Indeed, in many cases no ending is provided at all.”

Source : Larry McMurtry (2010). “Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood”, p.98, Simon and Schuster
“It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish ... to do otherwise is to legitimize it.”
“History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.”
“There is this arrogant feeling of being stronger than human. Humans are weak. They submit to their emotions, and vampires do not. Humans are very egoistic, and vampires are not.”
“I started to write a series of fantasy novels when I was eleven. I have never taken anything artistic as seriously; since then, writing has felt like an attempt to get back there, to my bedroom, my maps, those races and languages and runes.”

Source : "Go Forth (vol. 6)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. December 7, 2012.
“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
“The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.”

Source : "John Hodgman Talks to Al Madrigal About The Daily Show and Al's Stand-Up Special". Interview with John Hodgman, www.vulture.com. April 26, 2013.

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