John Keats Quotes
The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style.
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In '87, I was about 9 years old, and so at that point I was wearing, like, fluorescent green T-shirts and acid-wash jeans and leg warmers, and my hair was in a ponytail with a scrunchie and I had the teased bangs that were up in a rainbow shape. It was crazy.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.
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I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
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Everybody likes a compliment.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
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I'm still so young, so I feel like people have wanted to keep me in a 'no-makeup' fresh type of look - sometimes artists are a little afraid of really putting the makeup on me.
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Well, I'm certainly glad that I was nominated for an Oscar. There is certainly a respect that comes with that nod. Also, a compliment that comes with it, too. Not that I really know what I'm doing. In a lot of ways I feel like some child on set, or like a kid that snuck in the back door.
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Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn't just let someone else do it.
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Industries that make goods and services that people have to buy, regardless of economic circumstances, are bound to do well whatever the economic conditions.
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It's hard to make something collaboratively. That's the challenge. Sometimes you're successful.
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The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.
