Derek Jarman Quotes
The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.
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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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Before WeWork, I had a baby clothing company. When I started out, I had no real contacts in the garment business and no mentor to guide me on how things worked. I just had an idea to put pads on the baby clothes on to protect the baby's knees.
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There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it; and there is the clock that is always right - except when you rely upon it, and then it is more wrong than you would think a clock could be in a civilized country.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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That's our mission: to clean and green New York City - one block at a time.
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I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.
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The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.
