Iain Sinclair Quotes
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Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.
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If you're going to maintain true authorities over a subordinate organization, you have to have some control over policy formulation of that organization and also the resources that are applied to it.
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Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close.
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I never feel insecure when there are two female leads.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
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All four majors are definitely a priority.
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Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.
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There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
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I want to try everything.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.
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I became a dancer late and an actor late.
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
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My characters hope for better lives.
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I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to coaching women. I leveled him with a death-ray stare, and said, 'Go home and coach basketball.'
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Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
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There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.
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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
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'Villain' is such a harsh word.
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I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies.
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With wrestling, you can't describe how that connection with an audience happens. I can't teach anybody how that happens. The bad things that have happened to me in WWE have made that connection stronger.
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What we acquire with joy, we possess with indifference.
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
