Yoko Ono Quotes
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Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.
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As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be.
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I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.
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Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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I've always had a strong start, but the start in boardercross is so important. And if you're not getting better, you're getting worse.
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Nobody has approached me about an offer to work in India. However, I can categorically state that if they did so, I would refuse immediately.
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Everyone at a party is uncomfortable. Knowing that makes me more comfortable.
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
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I have a dear friend here in Toronto, Sarah Millman, who has helped me a lot as a stylist.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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I'm a total loner. I can't even answer texts or take my phone with me when I'm working!
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I watched 'Evil Dead' when I was 12. I was going through all the horror I could grab. I remember going to the video store and asking for something 'real.' And the guy gave me the 'Evil Dead' VHS. When you're 12, you're not supposed to see that.
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If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.
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I'm comfortable only when there's a mutual attraction. That's what anyone wants. If I find out she's not attracted to me, it brings down my level of attraction to her. If I'm interested and find out she's not, I tend to cool off.
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To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.
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Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'
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The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man.
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We have a problem. 'Congratulations.' But it's a tough problem. 'Then double congratulations.'
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Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.
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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
