"What I do doesn't sit well in the world of hipsterville. I don't have a cool card, but I also don't have thin skin."

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Source : "Chris Daughtry: "4:00 A.M.", www.esquire.com. April 17, 2012.

Chris Daughtry

#Skins Quotes #Cards Quotes #World Quotes

“And how deeply do I let business considerations affect [screenwriting] choices that might otherwise be more or less esthetic? . . . Do I choose the upbeat rather than the downer ending because I know it will score better at the preview? Can the idea be sold in a single sentence? Can it compete with space aliens and tornadoes and missions impossible?”
“The greatest of the great make others better.”
“Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion.”
“Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.”
“Perhaps that is what life is all aboutâ€”the search for such a connection. The search for magic. The search for the inexplicable. Not in order to explain it, or contain it. Simply in order to feel it. Because in that recognition of the sublime, we see for a moment the entire universe in the palm of our hand. And in that moment, we touch the face of God.”

Source : Garth Stein (2014). “A Sudden Light: A Novel”, p.146, Simon and Schuster
“When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say 'wow, that was an adventure,' not 'wow, I sure felt safe.'”
“Some days confidence shrinks to the size of a pea, and the backbone feels like a feather. We want to be somewhere else, and don't know where - want to be someone else and don't know who.”

Source : Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”
“If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.”

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