George Oppen Quotes
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.
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I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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'Glass Sword' has several set piece scenes that I plotted out or visualized before I wrote them, but I always knew they were coming. They anchor bits of the story.
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I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.
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My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by.
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I have reached a limit in my work.
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You always gotta do what you like. If it connects, it's a miracle, but it happened with Die Antwoord.
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I live where I would like to live. I live in Majorca, Spain, and I am not sure there are better places.
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Where'er I roam, whatever realms I see,My heart untraveled fondly turns to thee;Still to my brother turns with ceaseless pain,And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
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My father had a dark glimmer in his eye as he moved behind her. 'Old?' He spoke in a low voice as he began to rub her shoulders again. 'Woman, I have a mind to prove you wrong.'She smiled a wry smile. 'Sir, I have a mind to let you.'
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Whatever voice spoke to him was no demon but some old shed self that came yet from time to time in the name of sanity, a hand to gentle him back from the rim of his disastrous wrath. (p.149)
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I was honoured to be on our next performer’s new video. And if I ever record an album, I want this guy to produce it and make me beautiful duets, ‘cause he’s a freakin’ genius!
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Te asusta el vacío, ¡y abres más los ojos!
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I think this is the sweetest tribute I have ever seen in this town.
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Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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I'm an information junkie, and I don't mean that in snobby way. I'm not talking about world information. I just like to know what's going on, especially pop-culturally. It interests me.
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Consider the possibility that I made a mistake I regret - and that I’ll continue to regret that mistake and try to convince you to give me another chance until the earth stops turning.
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Things explain each other, not themselves.
