Phil Klay Quotes
I have, for a very long time, been a huge admirer of Marilynne Robinson, whose work I just love.
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I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
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I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!
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The criteria, the only rule you should follow - the only rule - is to never touch a product or service unless, every time it is sold, part of the profit has to come back to you.
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When you are doing a long scene, you have dialogue and interaction to narrate the character. But making sense out of facial expression and reacting is difficult. Having said that, I think such challenges are good for learning.
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When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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I find it's really hard for anybody to meet anyone. I'm not big on dates anyways. I still have to work that out.
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I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.
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I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don't have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming.
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I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world, Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me.
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Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions.
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I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails.
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A lot of people don't know what I do. In the industry they take credit for work because to some degree it makes them feel worthy or greater. I am not a ghostwriter 'cause it is on the CD covers who wrote and did what but people don't care about anything they can't see. The work gets unnoticed and the credibility goes untouched.
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I've always believed in myself, and it's such a long competition over two days, you can't worry about what anyone else is doing.
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After a while Hilvar did his best to steer the conversation away from these meaningless morasses of theology in order to concentrate on the ascertainable facts.
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Human darkness fascinates me; I find it intriguing. And there are few female characters who are explored in this light.
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I have, for a very long time, been a huge admirer of Marilynne Robinson, whose work I just love.
