Jonathan Evison Quotes
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.
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I just like to explore all sorts of different forms - no, 'explore' is not even the word - enjoy. You don't want to limit yourself to a particular form.
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I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know?
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I always choose roles that are, you know, hopefully different from the last role. I don't wanna do the same thing over and over again because that's, well, first of all that's no fun.
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The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.
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For me, it's first about the characters. I look for a character who is intriguing and challenging and different from what I've done before.
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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.
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'Darkness' is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life.
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I torture my mother with all my problems, that poor woman.
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The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say.
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I did 'Love Letter' and 'Write Me Back,' and those were fun albums for me to do because they took me back to music I love.
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An indigo snake leaves a lasting impression.
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That was when she recognized love: this torture on seeing someone, the greater torture when he was out of sight, in short, a torture without end.
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Ethel patted her hair and looked very sneery.
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Struggling toward impassioned choirs, Crying among the clouds, enraged By gold antagonists in air - I know my lazy, leaden twang Is like the reason in a storm; And yet it brings the storm to bear. I twang it out and leave it there.
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Crowley wanted to be a magician because he wanted power - power over other people.
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I like to be home on a Friday night. I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV.
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There is the unknown and the unknowable which propounds all creation. This we cannot love , we can only accept it as a term of our own limitation and ratification. We can only know that from the unknown, profound desires enter in upon us, and that the fulfilling of these desires is the fulfilling of creation.
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I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.
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There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.
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We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.
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There are holes in our lives that can never be filled - not really, not ever.
