Iain Sinclair Quotes
If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
Quotes to Explore
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
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I have only a few really enviable skills, but packing - condensing just the right amount of stuff into a single bag, whether the trip is for a weekend or, as in this case, seven weeks - is one of them.
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Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.
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The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.
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I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
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Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.
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Punk rock isn't something you grow out of Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth'.
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Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.
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It's strange. In the last five minutes you have used my Christian name over and over again and never before. People I like learn my name too late.
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Sometimes I stand in store windows and pretend to be a mannequin. People are like 'hey, that mannequin looks alot like thom yorke' Then I start to sing The Gloaming and lurch toward them and they run off horrified.
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People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life.
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If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
