“My day job finds me in a double-bind often, and it's an ideal position for anyone interested in becoming highly reactive.” Quote by Kevin Drumm
“A lot of the projects I've allowed myself to get involved with over the past few years have made me a bit unfocused. It's just so ridiculously easy to do things here; if you're part of the scene, in five minutes you can wind up with two gigs within three days of each other. There's too much going on here and that's a bad thing, to me. Unless you want to jam, and then it's good.” PastEasySceneGet InvolvedOver The PastYou Can Win Author:Kevin Drumm
“For instance, we have the largest Polish population of any city except for Warsaw, and the largest Lithuanian population outside Lithuania. More Italians, Greeks, Irish, Latinos, Serbians, and Croatians than you can shake a stick at. Chicago has it all, I don't know why I'd ever leave.” GreekLatino Author:Kevin Drumm
“I have so many influences, I'm a big follower of fashion. I love fashion, because designers really find different reference points and really study up on different cultures.” DifferentCultureStudyInfluenceFashionDesignerDifferent Cultures Author:Sutan Amrull
“I scare people a little bit, so why not? That's what we do as drag queens. We're supposed to be a little intimidating!” PeopleScareIntimidatingDrag Queen Author:Sutan Amrull
“I've always been a lazy lip-syncher. But what's always worked for me is to break things down. I'm a visual learner, so I need to see it.” BreakLazy Author:Sutan Amrull
“I've always felt my role in life was to be a mentor. If I can do that with a younger generation, that's my goal.” GoalMentorYounger Generation Author:Sutan Amrull
“I just want to keep feeding people and letting them have little tidbits. I'm not sure what that is exactly, but I have a lot of great ideas. I just move organically in my life, and it's always worked.” PeopleMovingNot SureGreat Idea Author:Sutan Amrull
“We have this atomic idea of process where we want to believe that the creator of the book or the show had this whole brainy idea at the outset. As though there is something less about it if it comes out of the process of discovery.” BelieveBook Author:Steve Toltz
“I suppose I could read more fiction, but I haven't moved in that direction. I'd like more time even though I spend six hours a day reading. People say their eyes get tired, but I've never experienced that. In college I used to read 10 hours a day. My wife says I'm obsessive compulsive. She might have a point because when I was an undergrad student we had the required reading list and the suggested reading list. I always read all the suggested reading too.” PeopleEyeReadingHoursWifeStudentsCollegeMovedTiredMy WifeObsessive Author:Mark Helprin
“Anything would be better in the US than what you have. As a government it's really very low quality, given the fact that this country produces eminent intellectuals, has great universities, and then the people who arrive in government are very mediocre. The Latin American situation has been very different in the first place, because writers have spoken for those who have no voice. The rate of illiteracy, poverty, joblessness in Latin America has been so great throughout our history that if the writers didn't speak out for the people, nobody would.” PeopleDifferentCountrySpeakQualitySituationPovertyRateLatinMediocreLatin AmericaIlliteracy Author:Carlos Fuentes