James Blake Quotes
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.
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The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.
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I'm such a girl because all the guys go for cars because of their engines or something like that. I like the colour and the design.
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Value is what you get.
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We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
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I was raised by a family that there was no, 'You're a girl so you have a limited number of options.' In my community, that was never anything that happened.
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Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the book – you know, anyone not vivid enough to have a claim on my attention.
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It's not the last one. Five's out, six is coming out in November, that's a single chapter, and then seven is the big horrifying one. And I think a couple after that to wrap the thing up.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.
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What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
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China's energy is very much focused on coal, and the economy is very focused on heavy industry, which is carbon intensive, so restructuring won't be easy.
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With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?
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Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.
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People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
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When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.
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I think everybody wants someone who understands them and is able to compromise and meet them halfway. I mean, it goes both ways, you know?
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I think it's very important to be part of the Boston society and the people who live in Boston.
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I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.
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When I stepped back from the gallery I was in a phase where I thought I wasn't going to be making work for a gallery context for a while. People were like, "You should never leave a gallery if you didn't have somewhere else to go," but I wasn't trying to disrespect the gallerists in that way.
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The commercialization of dubstep isn't something I'm part of.
