Jakob Dylan Quotes
Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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My first show was in front of 30,000 people with will.i.am, and I wasn't even that nervous.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'
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I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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If I hadn't have been good enough at football, I'd have been a sports journalist - which is what I do now anyway. Or a cricketer. I might have been a cricketer.
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We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.
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You can't go through a divorce and then get back together.
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It's very demanding to make up your own music.
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My dad didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work
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Along with our passivity, we're entering a profoundly masochistic phase - everyone is a victim these days, of parents, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, even love itself. And how much we enjoy it. Our happiest moments are spent trying to think up new varieties of victimhood...
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I'm sick and tired of people saying that we put out 11 albums that sound exactly the same. In fact, we've put out 12 albums that sound exactly the same.
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Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.
