Pruitt Taylor Vince Quotes
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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research.
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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One person I find fascinating is J.Crew's Mickey Drexler. I would love to get into that brain and see how it works.
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Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.
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When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.
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I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.
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My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.
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I always take things step by step and match by match.
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I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.
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I'm a person who has a lot of energy. So, yes, I don't really stop to rest or de-stress. I just keep going. I figure that if you don't stop, then you'll never notice how tired you are.
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I love making shorts out of jeans, or customizing denim. Basically, I like to rip and distress things... I love that look.
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I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.
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When it's for the good of your state, you put partisan differences aside.
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What's happened in my career is probably fate and good luck.
