“I don't go out of my way to be outrageous, I just go out of my way to look at things.”
Dave Allen (1936–2005) Irish comedian and satirist
Compilation by the BBC 11 March, 2005 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4340205.stm
On how he would like to be remembered (1994)
Context: Oh, I don't know — that's a hell of a question — I don't tend to look at my stuff that way. I just look at it a book at a time. Something like the Amber books are in a different class. I try not to anticipate. I don't know what I'll be writing a few years from now. I have some ideas — I have lots of different things I want to try. I almost don't really care what history thinks. I like the way I'm being treated right now.
“I don't go out of my way to be outrageous, I just go out of my way to look at things.”
Dave Allen (1936–2005) Irish comedian and satirist
Compilation by the BBC 11 March, 2005 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4340205.stm
“I don't know if I'm closer to Heaven but
It looks like Hell down there.”
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
Context: I don't know if I'm closer to Heaven but
It looks like Hell down there.
These streets have never been paved with gold.
Phillip Guston (1913–1980) American artist
Source: 1961 - 1980, transcript of a public forum at Boston university', conducted by Joseph Ablow 1966, pp. 73-75
Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
Song lyrics, Paul Simon (1972)
Context: I'm on my way, I don't know where I'm goin',
I'm on my way, I'm takin' my time, but I don't know where.
Goodbye to Rosie, the Queen of Corona
See you, me and Julio down by the schoolyard.
Rick Riordan book The Demigod Diaries
Variant: Cacus.” I’d had years of practice looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn’t know. It’s a skill of mine. Annabeth keeps telling me to read a book of Greek myths, but I don’t see the need. It’s easier just to have folks explain stuff.
Source: The Demigod Diaries
Slim Burna (1988) Nigerian singer and record producer
Slim Burna on his Twitter http://twitter.com/slimburna1/status/377151400725467136, @Slimburna1 (September 9th, 2013)
Pauline Kael (1919–2001) American film critic
"The Perils of Being Pauline," interview with Francis Davis, The New Yorker (October 2001).
Interviews
“I don't look like that and I don't desire to look like that.”
Kate Winslet (1975) English actress and singer
Of a digital edited picture on a magazine <br class="br"> MoveOn.org, quoted by Alicia, moveOn.org, on 27 May 2011 http://front.moveon.org/kate-winslet-i-dont-look-like-that-and-i-dont-desire-to-look-like-that/