James Blaylock Quotes
Seeing that we were book enthusiasts, my mother began hauling my sister and me down to the Stanton Free Library on Tuesday afternoons, where I'd find two or three books to bring home.
Quotes to Explore
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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I do get recognized, more and more every day.
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
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I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.
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Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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Ethanol has reduced our nation's dependence on imported energy, created thousands of jobs, reduced air pollution, and increased energy security. And renewable fuels cost less at the pump. It is a growth fuel that fuels opportunities for millions of Americans.
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A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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If I worked as a waiter, I'd go home and write songs and record them. I'd have to. It's the only thing I know how to do. It's the only thing I can do.
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My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.
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Seeing that we were book enthusiasts, my mother began hauling my sister and me down to the Stanton Free Library on Tuesday afternoons, where I'd find two or three books to bring home.
