Drew Pomeranz Quotes
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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Music is my release.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
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This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.
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After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began throwing packages of tobacco at me. I stuffed them in my pocket.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural stardom and the inevitable waning of physical capacities prevent many architects from attaining the transcendent final phase more easily achieved by artists in other mediums.
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Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.
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I like characters with character, not just pretty faces. Anyway, I think people can be both grotesque and beautiful at the same time. Look at Mick Jagger in the seventies. Look at Angelina Jolie.
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I have no interest in ever coming out. I’m just trying to make the pictures look good; I’m not into trying to make myself look good. And besides, it’s a pretty safe bet that the reality of me would be a crushing disappointment to a couple of 15-year-old kids out there.
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When I was younger, about 15, I suffered badly from depression.
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I can pretty much take anything that comes at me.
