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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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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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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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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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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Imagine choosing a job not on money or even on career advancement, but as part of a life worth living.
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Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.
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I'm really fun. I'm ridiculously fun. I hope I'm infectiously fun.
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Television is the most interesting hobby I've ever had.
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We live in a liberally free country founded by people who were liberal. They were beyond liberal - they were revolutionaries.
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Life starts at conception and must be protected from the first moment.
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The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period.
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The band Grizzly Bear, I think they're excellent. There's a beauty and a musicality there that I wish would have been in vogue in the late '80s, when I was forming bands.
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My son's an idiot. He sprained his ankle playing golf. He fell off the ballwasher.
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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.
