"There was no hope for any kind of big opportunity. I'm not saying it was hopeless. The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists. But there was never any notion that you could make a living out of art. On the rare occasions you had a gallery show, and sold a little work, well, that was just gravy."

-- Edward Ruscha

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“The Lord always grants more than what he has been asked: you ask him to remember you, and he brings you into his Kingdom!”
“I had a lot of growing and a lot of denying of self to do. I am not easily won over, but when I am, I am completely won over.”
“Stop hoping, start believing.”
“I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.”
“Unless you believe in reincarnation, this is your one shot.”
“I've had people who see all my characters as Native, even if they aren't. It's kind of like assuming all a writer's characters are really female because the writer is a woman. I've learned to let that go.”

Source : "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.
“To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith”
“A whole new generation is looking at the videos, and going to the video shop and buying the re-release of the complete trilogy, which you can buy at a reasonable price.”

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