George Clinton Quotes
The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.
Quotes to Explore
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and then I write on my laptop in the recliner and handle the business side of email at my desk, which is sagging in the middle - maybe from so many words?
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I guess I was just meant to be a secretary who doesn't take shorthand. I'm a lousy typist, too - 33 words a minute.
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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
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The less lines, the better. I am the silent film actor, but not in a slapstick sort of way. Film is an image-based medium, so whatever you can say without the words is far more provocative and punctuating. If the lines are not funny or if they don't advance the story, sometimes it's hard. I hate talk in movies.
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The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.
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It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.
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To act: that is what the writer would like to be able to do, above all. To act, rather than to bear witness. To write, imagine, and dream in such a way that his words and inventions and dreams will have an impact upon reality, will change people's minds and hearts, will prepare the way for a better world.
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
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For me, if the words are good on the page, the rest of it comes from spending some time with the script, and not like you're learning lines but absorbing what the script has to offer.
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We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.
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I've never been into the typical R&B voice, with runs and bluesy sounding words. That doesn't suit me.
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People get really scared when women reclaim words, talk about themselves honestly and also make jokes because it's a really unstoppable combination.
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I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.
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Making a donation is the ultimate sign of solidarity. Actions speak louder than words.
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Silence is better than unmeaning words.
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A lawsuit with no legal precedent, seeking no damages, from no jury, in the name of stopping something that isn't happening? Only in New York.
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There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason.
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In Pakistan, there have been two real powers - one is Bhuttoism, and one is the worshipers of dictatorship. I call them the supporters of the establishment.
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I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.
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The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.
