JR Quotes

Most of the time, people look at a piece of art online when it is just a few blocks from their house. Changing the way you walk home everyday fills life with surprises.

JR

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: February 22, 1983

Topics

LifeHomeTimeArtWalkPeople

The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.

Jim Leach

ImportantMoreHumanitiesArtsTimes

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

Anatole France

EducationMindWillCultivateWhich

I don't write to create performance material; I write to make books.

Amy Gerstler

PerformanceCreateWriteMakeBooks

Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good. It trains you to think before grabbing and to think just as objectively when you're in trouble.

Stanley Kubrick

GoodGreatControlThinkFeelYou

Disability informs almost every part of my life. It's as important, if not more so, than my gender and sexuality. It's certainly a great deal more important to me than my religion or whether or not I caught a tram, ferry or bus to work.

Stella Young

LifeWorkGreatReligionMeMy Life

Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We're meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the mountain by a reliable if not scenic route, we have delivered. Technique is optional.

Stacy Schiff

MountainStoryLiteratureDownUp

I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She made sure we had Christmases. That was my mother. My father wasn't there for that.

Tracy Morgan

LoveFatherMotherSheEatGoing

In most negotiations, you can't attribute success or failure in negotiations to one side.

Roberto Azevedo

SuccessFailureYouSideMost

I was surrounded by music in my family, surrounded by people who sang songs - every single person I knew as a child growing up had one, two, three songs they knew from start to finish.

Roisin Murphy

FamilyMusicChildPeopleGrowing Up

You know, in high school I thought Catholicism was funny and sort of ridiculous, but then I also liked it, too. Like, I definitely turned to it in times of trouble.

Julia Sweeney

FunnySchoolHigh SchoolThoughtYou

For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.

Jonathan Safran Foer

GoodTimeDoctorThoughtLongNever

Often, writer's block will occur when I don't understand a character or his/her motivations. So I will make notes analysing characters.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

CharacterUnderstandWillNotesMake

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