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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Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't,By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant.
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Collectors are happy people.
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I'm hugely intrinsically motivated and have always believed that I'm fueled and motivated by learning.
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There was an enormous revival of pulp fiction that started in the '60s and continued into the '70s, which in large part gave rise to things like 'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones,' among others. But I developed an appetite for the original stuff at the time, and that appetite has never really abated.
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Love the giver more than the gift.
