Jeff Mangum Quotes
I spend a lot of time practicing active imagination before I go to sleep. What I'm feeling will manifest as images through active imagination. And then I go to sleep, and those play out even more in my dreams.
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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I love 'The Guardian' series. Bianca St. Ives is one of my favorite heroines ever, and the combination of action, suspense, and romance makes her story pure fun to write.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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I like to keep my private life private.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.
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I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.
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I think anybody can cook if they take the time.
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I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected.
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The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a brood mare band is about 10.
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I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.
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Usually for the tour, there's about 80 songs in our brain.
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I spend a lot of time practicing active imagination before I go to sleep. What I'm feeling will manifest as images through active imagination. And then I go to sleep, and those play out even more in my dreams.
