Iain Sinclair Quotes
The negotiation of city space has been made more difficult with the idea that redevelopment is an improvement for some vague future - but it's never like that, is it? Once you get there, for economic reasons you have to generate the next project - so you're immediately starting to dig up something else, and so it goes on.
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Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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The smuggling and distribution of misbranded drugs and medical devices of uncertain foreign origin has the potential for serious harm to patients.
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I feel there is a big sense of accomplishment and achievement and self worth through what you do no matter what the job, no matter what you decide to dedicate your life to.
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.
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I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.
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Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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First, to begin with, Mexico is North American; the one that is using wrong the term is United States. United States is not North America. North America is Mexico, United States, and Canada.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
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It's funny because the perception is that the typical 'X Factor' contestant is the person who's just working 9 to 5 and just decides to one day go and audition. So yeah, for me, it was a very different story.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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I was staying at the Konchucos Tambo lodge, next to the Huascaran national park, near Chavin. Sitting here on its veranda, I was beginning to see where all those Latin American magical realists get their inspiration from: they don't need to make anything up; they just write down what's around them.
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The effort of the economist is to "see," to picture the interplay of economic elements. The more clearly cut these elements appear in his vision, the better; the more elements he can grasp and hold in his mind at once, the better. The economic world is a misty region. The first explorers used unaided vision. Mathematics is the lantern by which what before was dimly visible now looms up in firm, bold outlines. The old phantasmagoria disappear. We see better. We also see further.
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In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.
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The negotiation of city space has been made more difficult with the idea that redevelopment is an improvement for some vague future - but it's never like that, is it? Once you get there, for economic reasons you have to generate the next project - so you're immediately starting to dig up something else, and so it goes on.
