"art happens. It happens when you have the craft and the vocation and are waiting for something else, something extra, or maybe not waiting; in any case it happens. It's the extra rabbit coming out of the hat, the one you didn't put there."

-- Margaret Atwood

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“I hate to spread rumours, but what else can one do with them?”
“I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.'”
“Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture.”

Source : Rae Armantrout (2009). “Versed”, p.97, Wesleyan University Press
“When I first joined SAG, there was another John Reilly. My dad was John Reilly, too, but growing up I was John John. Nobody in life calls me John C. It's more like, 'Hey you, Step Brother!'”
“No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted. The last 25 years of research show that reading aloud to a child is the oldest, cheapest and must successful method of instilling that desire. Shooting baskets with a child creates a basketball player; reading to a child creates a reader.”
“There's pressure every night to be the best on the court. I put a lot of pressure on myself. Pressure is part of the game. It is also part of life. I want to prove I can do the work and be a success off the court as well as on it.”
“You had this all planned, didnâ€™t you?' I accused. 'Thought you could come in here and seduce me like you do everyone else?' It wasnâ€™t as if I could be angry, lying atop him as I was, but I tried.”
“You have to be rather straightforward with your clients. You can't tell the parties only nice things. This is not an entertainment show; it's not reality television either.”

Source : "Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wants Jobs for the Young". The Associated Press Article, October 11, 2008.

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