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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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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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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L.A. is definitely a Marmite sort of place for me. I used to hate it, but now I love it. I think it really helps if you know the places and the restaurants and the nice bars to go to and if you have friends there. I've got some friends over there now, and they're not all actors, which is quite refreshing, and now I have a great time there.
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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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Not that I wasn’t also having fun. Ripping the Defenders’ arguments to shreds and then reading all the comments agreeing passionately with me and electronically patting me on my cybershoulders was thrilling. It’s so much harder to actually define yourself and work to imagine the best possible future than it is to tear down others’ ideas.
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At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!
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They wanted Bridgette to be this extremely enigmatic character. Im about the least enigmatic person on the planet, so I just thought what I did on the show was boring.
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Never go to bed with someone whose problems are greater than yours.
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I always thought I could do a good job coaching, but the opportunities have not presented themselves.
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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.
