Dr. John (Malcolm John Rebennack) Quotes
When the voice and the vision on the inside is more profound, and more clear and loud than all opinions on the outside, you've begun to master your life.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
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I just want to do my job.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Markets rebounded quickly from morning jitters after the London Thursday terrorist bombing.
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When I recollect the treasure of friendship that has been bestowed upon me I withdraw all charges against life. If much has been denied me, much, very much has been given. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart I shall say that life is good.
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There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
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The harder the life, the finer the person.
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If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art.
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When the voice and the vision on the inside is more profound, and more clear and loud than all opinions on the outside, you've begun to master your life.
