Neil Strauss Quotes
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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I record it here today to establish my early predisposition to editorial work - to be both pontifical and wrong.
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There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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I think you just have to accept the fact that no one lives forever, and eventually things are going to come to an end, whether it's a TV show or life.
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Always believe what you see - with your own eyes, that is. Always believe what you see. That's the best way to go about this business. I've heard a lot of things about a lot of people, and it was never true.
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That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.
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I'm not the one who was elected. I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
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There is one unity, unified wholeness, total natural law, in the transcendental unified consciousness.
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The GOP used to be united on a traditionalist view of social and moral issues.
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Television isn't my career. Business is.
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A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic.
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Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.
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Don't worry about your heart, it will last you as long as you live.
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Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
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It's all about learning your craft and honing it in and really paying attention to people who are doing it and what their advice is. It's like anything: it takes years and years and years. A lot of it comes down to work ethic.
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I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.
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I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential.
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There is more to Indian cinema than just Bollywood. I think regional cinema, especially Tamil and Marathi cinema, are exploring some really bold themes.
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They say that love is blind, but it's trauma that's blind. Love sees what is.
