Michael Azerrad Quotes
Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
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We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.
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I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'
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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
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That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
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I think it's not really difficult to write about love. We've been saying the same thing over and over for so many years. But it depends on how honest it is and how good you make it feel. You can say 'I love you' in a trillion ways, and it can always sound different or feel different.
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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
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I signed with Big Yellow Dog and have been with them for years. The president of the company is a woman named Carla Wallace, who is an amazing publisher who just has a knack for female artists.
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All makeovers should be about enhancing who you are.
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I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax.
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I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
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Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.
