Hananeh Shirzi Quotes & Sayings

It's hard for me to say what would happen if I didn't go to art school. It wasn't that I learned any specific painting or drafting skills at school that I felt I couldn't have taught myself. However there is something quintessentially unique and important that you gain by immersing yourself in ascholastic and creative universe, and being held to certain academic standards while being surrounded by artists of varying disciplines. — John Dyer Baizley

I've got a contract that keeps me around a few more years. — Marc Cherry

When we're passionate about something, we have a positive attitude and embrace each day with a new outlook. — Deepak Chopra

Mostly, we talk to impress. And sometimes we shut up to impress, too. — Nema Al-Araby

In a way, all recorded music is reduced to the same level, no matter what it is. You find it in the store, you put it on and, "Oh, that's not cool. That's gangsta rap. That's white supremacist punk." But in a way, the content is removed from the intention of the people that made it. That's the commercial level of music. — Eyvind Kang

About half of all design patterns out there [ ... ] appear to be ways take perfectly natural design ideas and twist them to fit into someones static type system: recipes for pounding square pegs into round holes — Steve Yegge

You have to take power. No one gives it. — Frederick Douglass

Would I ever find the perfect note to fill the music sheet that I had? — Kristine Cuevas

I try to be optimistic, but in this business it's so hard. The craziest stuff can happen. — Eliza Coupe

I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in. — Tom Waits

The needs of a wife are nothing like that. A close human bond demands a tolerance, an ability to adjust, to moderate one's own actions and to accept criticism, even unreasonable behavior at times, to listen to all kinds of chatter and hear the real message behind the words. Above all, it needs the sharing of self, the dreams and the fears, the laughter and the pain. It means taking down the defenses, knowing that sooner or later you will be hurt. It means tempering ideals and acknowledging the vulnerable and flawed reality of human beings. — Anne Perry

I explained about how we were in Rick's hands and also how he had washed his hands. — Miranda July