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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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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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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Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels.
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If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.
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I look upon meself as... You take a band that's made up of arms, legs, bodies... I happen to be the piece that talks. And does all that area of it, you know? I'm also very easy to recognize; the darkie in the middle jumping around with the guitar, you know. Dat boy's got rhydm!!!
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There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.
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The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me.
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War is just what we do. Yet, of course, the effects of it are repeatedly deeper, then deeper, then deeper.
