Ben Okri The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ had a formative effect on me. I think it’s one of those works that if you encounter it very early you’re doubly enchanted by the beauty of the language and the strangeness of the vision. It stays with you. – Ben Okri Ancient Quotes Beauty Quotes Doubly Quotes Enchanted Quotes Encounter Quotes Formative Quotes Language Quotes Mariner Quotes Rime Quotes Stays Quotes Strangeness Quotes Vision Quotes We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet – I was standing on nothing. It was the strangest thing. Her passing away ripped the solidity out of the world. I became a sceptic of one way of seeing the world. And I think it is what started me in my awareness that any worldview is superstitious.
Sheryl Crow There’s so much of it you can’t control. There is no handbook for how to conduct yourself in the public world. – Sheryl Crow
Jade Bird I like to keep morale up and not take things so seriously all the time. I enjoy life and laughs but I’m serious about the music. Serious about the craft of songwriting. – Jade Bird
Esa-Pekka Salonen This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience. – Esa-Pekka Salonen
Rita Dove I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things. – Rita Dove
Joshua Jackson I was briefly in the original version of ‘Tombstone,’ but I didn’t make the final cut because that movie went through a couple of different permutations. – Joshua Jackson
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