Carlisle Floyd Quotes
Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
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We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
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Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.
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Central bankers have had enormous responsibilities thrust on them to compensate, essentially, for the failings of the political system. And my worry is we don't have sufficient tools to do that, but we're not willing to say it.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.
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I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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Everything's so accelerated now.
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That's the kind of game we have to play here and it will be very difficult to beat us.
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While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed.
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So I've had lots of different bands over the years who have stayed with me for certain tours.
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Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew.
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You can remember times when you were a kid, when life looked too doggoned deliciously beautiful to be left alone. So you could feel like that again if you worked at it.
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Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
