"I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance."

-- Edith Sitwell

#Death Quotes #Nuisance Quotes #Awful Quotes

“There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language.”
“I thought about how to film something, how to take pictures of it and how to mix it all together. And I was getting that through Patti [Smith] - because she takes pictures, performs, writes; she does so many things, and that was a big inspiration to me. It helped me realized that I'm not just a fashion photographer. I wanted to do all these other artistic things as well, and during filming my mind opened up to those possibilities.”
“I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.”
“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
“You want to change your life? Control the only thing you can control: the meaning you give something.”
“My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.”
“Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species, was published in 1859. It is perhaps the most influential book that has ever been published, because it was read by scientist and non- scientist alike, and it aroused violent controversy. Religious people disliked it because it appeared to dispense with God; scientists liked it because it seemed to solve the most important problem in the universe-the existence of living matter. In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to 'bend' their observations to fit in with it.”
“I drink red wine on ice to water it down.”

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