Brian Eno Quotes
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
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My parents got to see all my hard work pay off.
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
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I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
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My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
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When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap product back then. I didn't want to do that. From an early, early, early age, I was like, 'I like music. This performing thing comes easy.' And perhaps that's how I ended up doing what I'm doing today. Being a musician.
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I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.
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The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.
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I've been working on the screen right from childhood and am completely in love with my work. And this experience has taught me that ultimately, it's a good script, good work that matters, whether in Bollywood or in the South.
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I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.
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I have been into social work since 45 years, and at an average, every day for one or two hours, I have been engaging in social discourses. It is not a small thing.
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I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
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One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
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When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.
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I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our sense of who we are and yet elusive, ever-changing, fragmentary. One way to look at this is to say that, therefore, we ourselves are elusive, ever-changing and fragmentary to ourselves.
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I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus.
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I don't have my finger on the pulse of corruption in China, but I think most people on the ground would say that as China was emerging from communism, it was a very regulated society, and therefore, it was very corrupt. But as they have deregulated the economy, there just aren't as many opportunities for people to be corrupt.
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Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous.
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History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.
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Think inside the work - outside the work.
