Malik Bendjelloul Quotes
If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
Malik Bendjelloul
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The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.
Randy Jackson
Breakfast Club
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The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
Umberto Eco
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Imperfection is perfection.
Flume
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
Adam Osborne
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Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.
Damon Knight
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Change is no threat to culture.
Wade Davis
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That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.
Taiye Selasi
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I was kind of thrown into - I didn't expect to do this for a living, being a recording artist. I was just playing music for the fun of it and writing songs. That was kind of my escape, you know, from the humdrum of the world.
John Prine
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The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can't charge it.
Bill Vaughan
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I'm not very into pastas or heavy foods like meat, but pastries, especially if they come from a really nice French bakery, I go crazy over! I try to allow myself those little treats in the morning for breakfast, then I have a lighter lunch.
Barbara Fialho
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And it was to this city, whenever I went home, that I always knew I must return, for it was mistress of one's wildest hopes, protector of one's deepest privacies. It was half insane with its noise, violence, and decay, but it gave one the tender security of fulfillment.
William Weaks Morris
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If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
Malik Bendjelloul
