Shaun Tan Quotes

The detail adds an element of unexpected something. All fiction is false; what makes it convincing is that it runs alongside the truth. The real world has lots of incidental details, so a painting also has to have that element of imperfection and irregularity, those incidental details.

Shaun Tan

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TruthPaintingDetailWorldDetails

I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema.

Jim Jarmusch

New YorkWritingBackCinemaNew

Can we call the essay its own genre if it's so promiscuously versatile? Can we call any genre a 'genre' if, when we read it from different angles and under different shades of light, the differences between it and something else start becoming indistinguishable?

John D'Agata

LightStartDifferencesShadesOwn

When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count. I was very ill as a child and in and out of hospital. That sort of alienates you, and in my songs I put that to good use.

John Lydon

GoodChildMeEndYouFeeling

I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.

Anna Deavere Smith

LifeFatherRememberImagePrism

We have to push aside what generally concerns us most in our thought life, namely, the content of our thoughts, and learn instead to make conscious use of the element of will in our thinking.

Rudolf Steiner

LifeThoughtsThinkingThoughtPush

I've never shaped or crafted my music for any specific group of people. Whoever connects with it is fine with me. I don't care where they come from.

Mat Kearney

MusicPeopleMeCareGroupNever

It is important never to forget our history, but parts of our history are more appropriately displayed in museums, not on government property.

Matt Bevin

HistoryGovernmentImportantForget

Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years.

Lisa Morton

SuccessNightLongSayYearsWell

My job is to play many different roles with all sorts of different backgrounds and orientations.

Josh Charles

JobPlayDifferentDifferent Roles

I like humor.

David Yates

HumorLike

I am having a good time doing nothing.

Phylicia Rashad

GoodTimeI AmHaving A Good TimeAm

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

IntegrityBusinessWrongKindDid

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