Jessica Lange Quotes
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Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.
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Different times need different types of leadership.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.
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When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the history itself is not something that I would call backdrop. It's not window dressing for a timeless relationship about love and betrayal. For me, the setting and the specific history are active co-agents with me in trying to form the novel.
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Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.
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The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.
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Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
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If you go through your life being completely truthful, everybody will hate you, and something I deeply fear is being hated.
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Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.
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Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.
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Our music has always been instant reactive and I guess taking our time to absorb things and say what you really want to say could be much more offensive than anything we've ever done.
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Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them.
