Jeff Buckley Quotes
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.
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I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
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A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its attainment, and then yield the ground when confronted by firm opposition.
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I'm not a one-issue person.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
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I'm in a really nice position because I can be selective with the modeling jobs that I do and just work with brands I'm passionate about. The two worlds balance out nicely for me because modeling is so social - it has travel, you meet people, it's extroverted. Whereas painting is very solitary - when I paint, I'm kind of in my own world.
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I'm a pretty plain-spoken guy.
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
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I assumed no one would ever listen to my music, and for quite a lot of years, I was right.
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
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When I do see a picture of myself that has been touched up too much, I do get a bit sad... it makes me look like a hypocrite. It breaks my heart. I would rather shoot a magazine and shoot my flaws, but that's not up to me.
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Why in the world shouldn't they have regarded with awe and reverence that act by which the human race is perpetuated. Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
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I'm convinced I got signed because of who I am. And it makes me sad.
