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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After 25 years sitting on my own in a room, I was looking for a more companionable job and wanted to work more collaboratively. I've also been very lucky in my career, with good advances and multibook deals. But there is some extent to which I worried that I was writing for the contract and not for the impulse of the thing itself.
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If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer you speak, the more you will know to tell.
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I have spent my whole life trying to prove that women can get into politics. I'd now say to them, 'For God's sake don't do it - you'll get slaughtered.'
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My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
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Think inside the work - outside the work.
