Elliott Smith Quotes
I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
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It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly making weird blood concoctions; Jell-O and milk was a good one. I was constantly ruining clothes and staining my parents' walls and stuff.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.
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The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.
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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
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Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those who 'overcome.' Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.
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The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children.
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I believe in sleeping.
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Generally, writers have very uninteresting lives.
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If you don’t have ambition, you shouldn’t be alive.
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I'm great at leaving. I am less talented at getting left, though I should be better, given how much it's happened.
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By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By leaving, one gains a perspective, a distance of both space and time, which is essential for writing about family or home, in any case.
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I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members.
