Iain Sinclair Quotes
As you withdraw energy from the city, you are also giving energy back. People are noticing you. You're doing something, you're there, the species around you absorb your presence into it, and you become part of this animate entity called the city.
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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.
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But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.
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Coconut water is just the best for you; it's always something we had in Brazil. Since I was a little girl, I've been drinking it.
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Sometimes you have to make a complete disaster of your life in such an epic way that it will be absolutely clear to you what you've been doing.
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While the women of the older generation were thankful if only they succeeded in obtaining 'a work and a duty,' however monotonous and wearing it might be, the will of the younger generation for a pleasurable labour has fortunately increased.
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I was heavy as a kid. I mean, I kind of got it together for a while there in my 20s and early 30s.
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Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.
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As you withdraw energy from the city, you are also giving energy back. People are noticing you. You're doing something, you're there, the species around you absorb your presence into it, and you become part of this animate entity called the city.
