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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For me, competition is good; that is what keeps me on my toes and keeps me going. I am always trying to better my own work, do better than my earlier films... do films that are challenging and exciting for me.
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I loved music and dance, and that was exciting to me.
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House music originated in America, and it has always been around, but I guess it just got a tighter hold on Europe and other parts of the world.
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Sometimes you'll have great actors who aren't comfortable with improvising. Which can get pretty frustrating. But every actor's coming from a different place and they have their own strengths and weaknesses and your job is to sell them as two people in the same world. Some of them have to have their hands held and some I just let loose entirely.
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And a thimble's worth of milky moonCan touch hearts larger than a thimble.
