Jon Lee Anderson Quotes
War is just what we do. Yet, of course, the effects of it are repeatedly deeper, then deeper, then deeper.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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I don't like possessions.
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If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.
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Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.
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One challenge in this industry is that you adopt a certain look for a movie, and then people don't get to see the movie for a year!
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It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
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The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.
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I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.
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Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
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Rather than allowing jihadists to shut down debate, it must proliferate so much that they simply cannot kill us all.
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Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.
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We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair election, free of fraud, free of intimidation, and that's what we delivered on election day, and we're very very proud of it.
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If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
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I worry about my grandchildren because the Internet can be brutal.
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I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music.'
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George W. Bush was a very bad president. The Iraq war was a big mistake. The U.S.A. needed a political change. I hoped Barack Obama could be a good president, but I'm disappointed. He hasn't done well.
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There is a concerted effort to keep you and me, you know, the people, away from what it [war] really looks like, 'cause when you're selling war, when it's such a big industry. What they don't tell you is the rest of it and the down side of it. And so obviously there is a lot of money and a lot of time and effort being spent on that campaign "perpetual war for perpetual peace".
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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One of my favourite parts of acting is the clothes that you get to wear, because it's very important.
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War is just what we do. Yet, of course, the effects of it are repeatedly deeper, then deeper, then deeper.
