Frederic Raphael Quotes
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.
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I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.
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My mum told me once I was a Hindu.
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I am a believer in the journey and enjoying the journey.
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It's nice to just embrace the natural beauty within you.
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The government believed that adherence to authority was human nature, so the Gezi protests were a real surprise to them. After the initial moment of shock, they decided to severely punish those participating in what they called an act of disobedience to authority.
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I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal - like, big scandal.
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I think whenever you love something or somebody it means that you have to extend yourself, you have to grow - get a little larger. You can't stay in your little comfortable - spot.
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All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
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I got to know Elton John's older music by learning to like his newer stuff. 'The Lion King?' That's what I like.
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Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajectory of some creative idea.
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I learned from my mom to always keep pushing yourself.
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There are few professions whose primary objective is to advance the cause of humanity rather than simply to make money or accrue power. Among this limited group of humanitarians I would number teachers, nurses, bookstore owners, and bartenders.
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Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.
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Since the appearance of Impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red.. .But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.
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I think, if I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean, that's what the best art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to be political. I think if you read all my books, you know where I stand, pretty much.
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I believe in God and immortality.
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It's rare - too rare, I have to say - for botanists to become doctors.
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Modest successes are better known as failures.
