Elliott Smith Quotes
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I love Rag & Bone, Dior, and Valentino; I like feminine, sexy things. Dolce & Gabbana and Chanel, too.
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Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.
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I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.
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I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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My parents were perfectly open-minded about everything. They never tried to convince us of what was true or what wasn't true in their minds. We were just presented with the information that was around and pretty much allowed - though, I mean, we knew how they felt. We knew they didn't go to church. So obviously that had an effect.
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First of all, I want to thank the Buccaneers for giving me the opportunity and for picking me in the draft. This is the nature of the beast, though, and this is a new start for me. I wish them the best of luck, and I am just glad to be a Bear.
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I loved doing 'Homeland.' I loved playing Brody.
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Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.
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Hector Lavoe is the greatest of all time. Marc Anthony is the second greatest.
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Are not the gays who seek the right to marry, to formalise their commitment to each other, holding up a mirror to heterosexuals who are marrying less frequently and divorcing more often?
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We've been given this great gift, this huge canvas of these beautiful books by George Martin, and the idea of telling this whole epic through to the end is incredibly compelling.
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I'm trying to get a thicker skin. I like to be aware of people's perceptions of me, but when you put it as a priority, as a means to judging your worth, that's when it can be dangerous.
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'Everybody thinks they want to see the truth,' said Tenkswa-Tawa. 'That’s one of the lies we tell ourselves.'
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Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
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Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
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I've talked about that with friends, about what genre makes sense to choose for each record and the strategy around that... Sometimes it's more about the moment of time, and other times it's more about the sound of the song. Sometimes it's about what's going on in larger life, in politics.
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It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.
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I think that people are generally really terrible at being ambassadors of their own work.
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In the annals of science fiction, where dystopias rule the imaginative roost, Star Trek stood nearly alone in telling us that our future would be better than our past, that our common problems would be solved, that we, as a species, were fundamentally good, and that the universe would reward us for our goodness.
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I used to listen to 'Ready to Die' around the time I dropped out of college. I was scrambling for work and money.
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when asked about cigarettes I don't recommend them... but I smoke them.
