Elliott Smith Quotes
Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.
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I try to get going early, on the assumption that the way you begin your day is the way you continue. But certain books only want to be written at night, so there's no hard rule where work is concerned.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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The first 'D' is to dream: dream big - not for yourself, but for the country and for the world. The second 'D' is to discover: discover your full potential and the opportunities that surround you; and the third 'D' is to do. 'Do' means to act on your dreams and make best use of the opportunities you have discovered.
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I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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I've lived most people's dream by playing football.
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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The fact of the matter is, it's hard to find good movies, period.
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There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody.
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We know about the socially complex lives of elephants: how they communicate, how they bond, how they even seem to grieve. We have ethologists in the field and activists on the ground to thank for that knowledge.
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Someone asked me the other day what it feels like to see all my 'old stuff' reappearing, at long last, in digital. And I had to smile because to me it doesn't feel like 'old stuff.'
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Benedict Cumberbatch is very beautiful.
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I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.
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If I had a robot friend, he or she would be electric.
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I am a sepoy and will follow the guidance of my leaders.
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As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.
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I'm a big fan of films that I grew up on and would watch obsessively, over and over again. If I didn't feel like I got everything on the first watch good, I want to see it again immediately.
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The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.
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If we are given gold, would we not test it to determine it's value? If we doubted its genuineness - we would test it by fire...and so God with us.
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Either you've got the bug, or you haven't. There are many things I'd rather be doing than writing a book.
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Friends can hurt you, but the possibility of pain with lovers is so much greater because your expectations are so high. You don't ask as much of your friends.
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I'm not the new Penelope Cruz. I'm Paz Vega. There's only one Penelope and she's marvellous.
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If we do not learn by heart, the heart does not feel the rhythms of poetry as echoes or variations of its own insistent beat.
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Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.
