Edgar Degas Quotes
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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
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I am flirtatious by nature, but I have never hurt anyone.
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
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I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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I love music.
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I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
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KWMR is my radio station, and I intend to have a job there as I get older. That's what I'm lobbying for. They don't need me. They've got plenty of people. But let's see if I can make myself indispensable.
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I am walking proof of the power of prayer.
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Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders.
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I always think that the exceptional people are those who remain outsiders but still communicate on a grand scale. I think I want everyone to feel more free, and so I feel really claustrophobic on behalf of lots of people.
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It's true that I'm even better than I could have imagined, both in football and in my private life!
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Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.
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I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by relationships.
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Iuravit in mea verba tota Italia.
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Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own.
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My personal favourites include J. J. Cale, R. D. Burman, Mehdi Hassan, and Ghulam Ali.
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I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
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I see the human being is an incredible machine, totally undiscovered in many ways. Every one of us has a hidden tank of energy that comes out when it is needed.
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We didn't go to the moon to explore or because it was in our DNA or because we're Americans. We went because we were at war and we felt a threat.
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We were created to look at one another, weren't we.
