Rory Charles Graham (Rag'n'Bone Man) Quotes
I'm new to a lot of people, and I don't think anyone wants to listen to 16 tracks of a new artist.
Quotes to Explore
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To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.
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It's no surprise that I ended up in sportscasting. I lived this world with my father, Mike Storen. Dad was a sports executive for most of my childhood.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.
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So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.
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When I signed back with Detroit, I signed to retire a Piston.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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I like to check out of reality for a little bit when I listen to music and kind of go somewhere, so I feel like the more broken-down acoustic songs tell stories to me the best.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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Some of the kimonos took as long as four to five months to make, with all the layers that go into it.
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I'm new to a lot of people, and I don't think anyone wants to listen to 16 tracks of a new artist.
