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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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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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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Good boys are nice - don't go for the bad ones!
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Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn't find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on the radio didn't bear any resemblance to what I wanted to hear on the guitar.
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Start-ups fail for a lot of different reasons, but one I see repeatedly is ego. It presents as a dangerous sense of self-importance. Or the entrepreneur thinks they are the smartest person in the room who knows better than anyone else and either doesn’t seek out advice or doesn’t want to listen when it’s offered. Such know-it-alls delude themselves into thinking they have everything figured out, even though they don’t. For as hard as it is to elbow your way into the marketplace in ideal circumstances, it’s made exponentially harder when you don’t check your ego at the door.
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There is a difference between not understanding and being willfully obtuse.
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It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.
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Got any excuses tonight Roy?
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Death is no different whined at than withstood.
