James Cook Quotes
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.
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A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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I don't see myself as famous; I see myself as a normal person with a job that is not very normal. My work life is very out there and very public. But I do my best to maintain my privacy.
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I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
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Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.
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But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.
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I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.
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There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion.
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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
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There should be a place and the space for all pop.
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I'm glad I'm not bisexual. I couldn't stand being rejected by men as well as women.
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Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
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In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.
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The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
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We are coerced into faith by our suffering.
