Joanna Newsom Quotes
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.
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I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you think you're doing this for nothing. An audience is crucial, a back and forth with the invisible readers.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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Chana dal are skinless dried split chickpeas used in Indian cooking. They have a great texture and delicate flavour.
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At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
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We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilisation, we must deal scientifically with the brute element, using only genuine biological principles.
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Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
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The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the other people.
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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
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The public use of a man's reason must be free at all times, and this alone can bring enlightenment among men...
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Democracy is the best revenge.
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For all Mr. Gorbachev's policies, is he prepared to see the break-up of the Soviet empire? I do not think so for one moment.
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It amazes me how a person to whom literature means anything can take it up as an object of study.
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I've sold my soul to the devil.
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I am persuaded, therefore, that the Maryland procedure is virtually constitutional. Since it is not, however, actually constitutional, I would affirm the judgment of the Maryland Court of Appeals reversing the judgment of conviction.
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No one's kicking down the door to fight Bernard Hopkins.
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God is best known in not knowing him.
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Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.
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Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.
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On an island, anything can happen. In a crime novel, it usually does.
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And a thimble's worth of milky moonCan touch hearts larger than a thimble.
