Edie Brickell Quotes
Wheels keep on turning and turning and turning And nothing's disturbing the way they go around.
Quotes to Explore
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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A lot of artists go in the studio and say, 'OK, whaddaya want me to do? Is it gonna be a hit? I'll do it. Is it gonna get played on the radio? I'll do it.' So they start makin' these songs, and they fall in the same tempo, same category, same this, same that, and it'll just all sound the same.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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I feel enormously proud to be part of East Anglia's Children's Hospices and to see the wonderful life-changing work that you do.
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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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It is neither my intention to depart from the route of John Garang nor to change the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
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No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.
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Animated editorial cartoons are completely different from static editorial cartoons.
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And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.
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It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
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There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.
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There is a real formula to writing music, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. It's very formulaic. The subject matter that you can address in pop music is somewhat restricted. It just doesn't allow that same emotive quality that you can put into poetry.
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The concept of even having fans is still kind of weird to me. I really just feel like a filmmaker that is only just finding my foot in and is beginning to participate in Hollywood and making films. So the idea of any kind of fandom or people that are waiting for something that I may release is very distant in my mind.
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I'm not the kind of writer that can write eight hours a day... I'm the kind of writer that the more time I have, the less efficient I am.
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My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.
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Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.
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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?
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Wheels keep on turning and turning and turning And nothing's disturbing the way they go around.
