Du Fu Quotes
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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I've spent a lot of time being bohemian and sleeping on floors, but eventually I want to have kids and I want to bring them up in a secure environment.
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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Switzerland felt incredibly narrow, growing up. It was good, in a way. There were so many museums. But it was always a no-brainer that I would have to leave, and I'm grateful for that.
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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
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Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about everything.
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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
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While I know that Twitter is doing just fine with or without my 140-character contributions, I also know that people are fickle, and when using something becomes too annoying, they stop.
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Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.
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It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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You have to try to grow between every fight: get back in the gym and keep working hard and find the areas that you need to work on. See what you did wrong and work on it.
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OATS - A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
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Passion in Ireland is denounced as evil and obscene. Women are the snares set for us by the Devil.
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Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
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It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break.
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I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.
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好雨知時節，當春乃發生。隨風潛入夜，潤物細無聲。
