The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.
Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the seedy offers.
I was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity.
Danielle had never started a business. But if others can do it, so can I.
Daniel: So, how are you? Sophie: Buckling under the weight of a thousand expectations. You?
A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.
i"ll always catch you when you fall." -Daniel ,, torment
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God.
Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?
I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.
I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.
I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.
I've always wanted to be one of those actors who could change from character to character, like Daniel Day Lewis or Jeffrey Wright.
It's quite nice to have a place to leave things. You can be a permanent gypsy, but it's nice to go home.
I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way.
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.
I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.
When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design.