John Constable Quotes
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So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
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I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.
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I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
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For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.
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Lovers should also have their days off.
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Most of the time I like to start an album abroad, not at home, just to avoid the pressure, to not wake up and think, 'OK, it's the first of recording this album.' I like to avoid that.
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Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
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When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.
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Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
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Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.
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The world is as it should be.
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Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?
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At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.
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Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.
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Is all the world jails and churches?
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I don’t think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern.
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I think I've lived a pretty hard life. What I mean by hard is that... I've been kind of reckless with things. I'm a passionate person. I'm a super passionate person. I think there's definitely been sorrow in my life, good and bad. I think it comes through. I hope it comes through in my writing because to me that's what artistry is.
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The myth about the angel who rebelled against his Lord is the most beautiful of all myths, the proudest, the most revolutionary, the most immortal of them all.
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My occupation is assistant storyteller. It is not "icon."
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You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards.
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The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: Look what I killed. Aren't I the best?
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He seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent, and so airy.