Jeff Buckley Quotes
Certain emotions just take you to the notes - being furious, heroic, sad, erotic, when rain comes.
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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We discovered a mechanism which is like the garbage machine of the body. We need to remove damaged proteins and create new ones in their place, and we discovered the machine that does this.
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I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.
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When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.
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There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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I just lost interest in performing.
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I've always been such a loser with my organisation skills. That has always been one of my sad stand-out points.
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I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award.
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We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden party three Sundays from now.
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But you begin to feel as you go on working that unless painting proves its right to exist by being critical and self-judging, it has no reason to exist at all - or is not even possible. The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.
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Death holds no allure for me, Elena.” The power of him cut against his skin, a cold white fire. “Not when I have yet to sate my hunger for you.
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Certain emotions just take you to the notes - being furious, heroic, sad, erotic, when rain comes.
