Bernard Sumner Quotes
If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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We played 'Girl in a Country Song' in front of Scott Borchetta, and he loved it.
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I would say that Juventus is a myth not only in Italy, because it's the most loved team in Italy, but also around the world. And it has been in my family since birth.
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I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.
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I had an unhealthy obsession with 'Only Fools and Horses.' I still have to watch an episode with my brother every two or three weeks.
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Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
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I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.
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It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.
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My whole career - I have been really lucky.
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I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.
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I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.
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I never cared about money or fame, and I don't care now. I follow the groove, and money always follows.
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There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.
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When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back.
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As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail.
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Rian Malan was one of the first younger writers to perceive and write about a darkness in the South African psyche that goes deeper than mere politics. To some extent, that's my territory, too.
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I have been known to go to the grocery store and just buy pepperoni. There's just something fantastic about salty, fatty meats.
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I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.
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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
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God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more. O love! O affliction! ye are the guides that show us the way through the great airy space where our loved ones walked; and, as hounds easily follow the scent before the dew be risen, so God teaches us, while yet our sorrow is wet, to follow on and find our dear ones in heaven.
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I have a blessed life.
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You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.
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The question is what I wanted to do with the new life God has given me. This is the mission I want to take on.
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If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.
