Ian Hamilton Finlay Quotes
If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work.
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
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I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.
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I love bayou life.
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I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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We no longer even understand the question whether change is by itself good or bad, ...We start out with the axiom that it is the norm. We do not see change as altering the order... We see change as being order itself-indeed the only order we can comprehend today is a dynamic, a moving, a changing one.
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A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
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When ideas are young and vulnerable, criticism can be lethal.
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If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work.
