John Cale Quotes
I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen.
Quotes to Explore
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This is part of what's driving me, is this feeling like there's so much yet to be discovered in the oceans, and we're destroying it before we even know what's in it.
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Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.
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You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.
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Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.
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I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
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I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.
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Malicious attacks on the Soviet Union produce a natural feeling of indignation.
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Being exposed to different production environments in Korea, Japan and the U.S. was a great experience, and each system allows you to quench your thirst in a different way.
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You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night.
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There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
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I don't remember feeling love.
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What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.
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Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
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The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.
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If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.
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Irrelevance is the feeling that an employee gets when they don't see how their job really makes a difference in someone else's life in some large or small way.
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People make me key chains... someone attached a Dauntless symbol to a silver pen. That one is what I use to sign books. I use that a lot. I like to keep them around because they remind me that people are waiting for these books and that they really love them. It gives me motivation in those times when I'm not feeling very motivated.
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I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.
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I don't have any feeling of accomplishment about anything unless there's a lot of risk to it.
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Looking good and feeling good go hand in hand. If you have a healthy lifestyle, your diet and nutrition are set, and you're working out, you're going to feel good.
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The phenomenon of dreaming ... helped to build up the notion of an unreal or spiritual world; and in general, all the conditions of savage dawn-life so strongly conduced toward a feeling of the supernatural, that we need not wonder at the thoroughness with which man's very hereditary essence has become saturated with religion and superstition.
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I don't mind playing bad guys, but I love having the opportunity to play all different types of characters.
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A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.
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I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen.
