James Geary Quotes
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Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
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In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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Life is like an analogy.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there's an ongoing evolution of clarity.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.
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The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.
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I was always able to get money, but now it's a little bit more money, and I manage the same way. I just want to see my family do better.
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The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow, and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined.An icy sweetness fills my mind, A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living, coiled, the spring.
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Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute.
