Jeff Buckley Quotes
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The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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People don't understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface - all of that goes into how the game is actually played.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
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I think very few people do find a relationship where, every moment of every day, everything they do comes together. That's why, in a nutshell, everyone loved Barbara in 'The Good Life.' She was the perfect partner. It was a formula. She wasn't glamorous. She wasn't clever. But she was a good partner. That's too easy, too perfect.
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I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I went to university, and I was going to do a Ph.D. in the States, but I didn't get the funding for it, so I had two years where I had a bit of a wobble and didn't really know what I wanted to do, and I ended up working as a banker.
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Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.
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I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.
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I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.
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A lot of people don't love their bank.
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My first introduction to New Orleans was from the air, flying high over the city with a view of the land - and water - below.
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In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.
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It was sort of a solution to financial problems when I was a little kid. I just kept doing it because it's fun to be on movie sets.
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People think it’s a failure to live alone. But it isn’t. The failure is to live with someone because you can’t face anything else.
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My favorite color is light pink. I also like baby blue because it brings out my eyes.
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It cannot be too clearly understood that this is not a free country, and it will be an evil day for the legal profession when it is.
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It is actually possible to become amateurs in suffering.
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I grew to understand or really grasp a sense of what the power of being humble is - that becomes a practice. Otherwise you'll be crushed by your fear of being humiliated. It'll control you the rest of your life. I really understood that. I haven't mastered it, I haven't come close to it.
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Groupies to me, were people who followed you around. Familiar faces who were always there, asking for autographs. We have more of those now, but they're not sexual.
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A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair; Honesty shines with great advantage there.
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Music bypasses the intellect, it makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you want to dance, makes you want to have sex.
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I've already created my own thing.
