Almanza Blackburn Quotes

#1. When I write stuff that's provocative, I want people to think about that, too. I'm in between a pop musician and an artist in that way. I want people to be part of the music as they listen, but I also want them to think: What was that?

Jenny Hval

#2. M.J. looked at her. "What's the difference between God and a federal judge?"

"I don't know."

"God doesn't think he's a federal judge."

Tara smiled, for what seemed like the first time in days.

Laura Griffin

#3. Seeing a play, listening to music - you'll always contextualize it in your own way. Whoever you are, wherever you are; I think that's really important.

Peter Doig

#4. It's when you meet another wretch who is as negative as you about everything that the thunder rolls and the lightening crashes and real life starts - because genuine communication has started

Ben Watson

#5. I just can't find the time to write my mind the way I want it to read.

Wilco

#6. With regard to manner, be careful to speak in a soft, tender, kind and loving way. Even when you have occasion to rebuke, be careful to do it with manifest kindness. The effect will be incalculably better.

Hosea Ballou

#7. I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

Theaster Gates

#8. The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.

Andre Malraux

#9. My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.

Manny Montana

#10. I had two roles for which I compromised.

Sidney Poitier

#11. The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

Bill Gates