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Looks like it's just a matter of time before this channel gets taken down, & all my videos with it. Never mind how much enjoyment people have had from watching some of those videos.
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Favourite quotations:
Rudyard Kipling: His whole poem, "If."
Harvey Fierstein: "Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
Langston Hughes: "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die / Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
Reel Big Fish: "No matter what, no matter who, no matter what I do, somebody hates me! (Somebody hates me!) Somebody hates me, somebody hates me ..."
Lyn Hejinian, on writing: "I perseverate on rain. I perseverate on pleasure."
Bhutan: Taking the Middle Path to Happiness (PBS): "If you make your happiness your mind, no one can rob it from you. If you make your happiness your car, it might roll off the hill ..."
Anonymous: "Whether you achieve what you want comes down to your answer to one question: How bad do you want it?"
Salman Rushdie, on post-7/7 cultural tensions in the UK: "'Purity' is a slogan that leads to segregations and explosions. Let us have no more of it. A little more impurity, please; a little less cleanliness; a little more dirt. We'll all sleep easier in our beds."
Hugh MacLeod, author of "How to be Creative" and IGNORE EVERYONE: "Sing in your own voice. Picasso was a terrible colorist. ... Henry Miller was a wildly uneven writer. Bob Dylan can't sing or play guitar."
Donald Hall, quoted by Ken Macrorie on honesty in writing: "There must be no gap between expression and meaning, between real and declared aims ... It means not saying 'I didn't mean to hurt your feelings,' when there really existed a desire to hurt. It means not saying 'luncheon' or 'home' for the purpose of appearing upper-class or well-educated. It means not using the passive mood to contribute to no one in particular opinions that one is unwilling to call one's own."
Robert Frost: "The woods are lovely, dark, and deep / But I have promises to keep / And miles to go before I sleep / And miles to go before I sleep."
China Miéville on his occupation as a sci-fi/fantasy fiction writer: "I'm in this fucking business for the monsters." My fucking hero.
Hometown:
Somewhere out west
Country:
United States
That's how the light gets in."
-- Leonard Cohen