Philip Larkin Quotes
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The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.
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I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
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The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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Power and speed be hands and feet.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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I've become the hunted. I'm enjoying that. It's better to be the hunted than the hunter.
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There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.
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Let it be known: I am a free agent. I'm operating as an independent label. I do not have corporate sponsors. I don't have no corporate backing. I don't have no major distribution.
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I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.
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There's no need to sharpen my pencils anymore. They're sharp enough. Even the dull ones will make a mark.
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To Anthony life was a struggle against death, that waited at every corner. It was as a concession to his hypochondriacal imagination that he formed the habit of reading in bed - it soothed him. He read until he was tired and often fell asleep with the lights still on.
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People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'
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You don't just have to see superhero movies. Ultimately, those movies are westerns - superheroes are good guys fighting bad guys in a landscape. In westerns, that divide couldn't be any more clear, but the only superpower you have is that you're a quicker shot than the other guy.
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Death is no different whined at than withstood.
