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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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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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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We do what we want to do. We write songs. We try not to repeat ourselves too much. We have our own sound and our own way of doing things. Up until now it has always been enjoyable. None of the members have ever got to the point where they don't want to be involved in it ... It's not entirely possible for me to stand back and look at the Rolling Stones because being a part of it you can't. I wish that I could just sit in the audience for one night and see the show. Everyone in the band has said that at some point. But then you wouldn't be seeing the whole band. And that's the problem with that.
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To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
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When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.
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I always back UN action where we can find it, but I do not think it should be a limit to our help. There have been multiple UN resolutions that say to Assad: stop killing indiscriminately your own citizens.
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle – mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of c and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.
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Wheels keep on turning and turning and turning And nothing's disturbing the way they go around.
