Brigham Young Quotes
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness.
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When I get online, there's this cycle of anxiety and narcissism that takes over, which is the part of me that I like the least.
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My mom and I are very close.
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I had a ball doing Harry Potter.
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I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.
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Robert Fisk is my hero. In America, they think he's a terrorist.
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When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating people. You need to be imitating how they make their work, how they structure it, how they design the pieces. It gives you chops; it gives you moves.
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I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
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Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.
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Interview with a Vampire was lots of sex, so I'm not sure.
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I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.
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I gravitate to whatever looks good on me and whatever maakes me feel sexy.
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I just make good movies. That's the way I thank my fans.
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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.
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Just give it everything you've got and bowl as fast as possible.
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The budget does not adequately fund important domestic programs, promotes tax cuts to the detriment of other priorities and does little to put our nation's fiscal house in order.
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I gathered from Hollond that he was always conscious of corridors and halls and alleys in Space, shifting, but shifting according to inexorable laws. I never could get quite clear as to what this consciousness was like. When I asked he used to look puzzled and worried and helpless.
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It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.
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In the long run I don't think anyone can overlook these images of hunger, that people can ignore all my pictures - no, definitely not. And even if only a vague impression remains, in time this will create a basis that will help people distinguish between what is good and what is objectionable.
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Love the giver more than the gift.
