"I think all of us, looking back on our careers and our lives, there'll probably be a "road not taken" that we'll regret and mourn. Certainly, artists will always feel that way, especially when the path taken was more commercial than the one not taken."

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Source : "Being Nina Simone". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 25, 2015.

Liz Garbus

#Regret Quotes #Taken Quotes #Artist Quotes

“I was an extroverted kid and performed, like, acting and singing. Then, the older I got, I realized I enjoyed performing things that I came up with myself more and I enjoyed making people laugh more than making people cry or think.”
“I knew I wasn't the person to play Ponyboy because I'm a girl, but without knowing it, I understand that was a place I could put all the stuff that I was feeling.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.”
“Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out.”
“America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.”
“That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I'll try to write a hundred tunes in a year.”
“Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.”

Source : Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.138, Penguin
“In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.”

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