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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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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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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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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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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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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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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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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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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For everyone I know who is a writer, there was some awkward time in their lives when they had to learn to call themselves one.
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Even though I wasn't sure I could make it as an indie, almost immediately I felt as if a weight had been lifted off me. To be as independent as I am and to be able to support myself is incredibly satisfying. Everything I want to do myself, I can.
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I once wrote deduceable instead of deducible in a book, though nobody then or since has taken me up on it. A small point as they go, perhaps, but Rule I of writing acceptably is to get everything right as far as you can, and in this case I had neglected to.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
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.
