Laura Lippman Quotes
I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that.
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And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.
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Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.
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Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.
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Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
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I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.
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The English Channel is such a narrow little puddle, you cannot help wondering why no invader has succeeded in crossing it since 1066.
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Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.
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America is the only high income nation without a paid family leave program. This means that if you or a family member gets sick, there is no guarantee that you can take the time you need to take care of yourself or your loved one, leaving already vulnerable families in the position of making hard decisions in cases of illness.
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The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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All of us, regardless of how we identify, need a community in which to grow our faith. We require the tangle of other souls to enlarge our hearts, to perfect our relationships with one another and to help us understand more deeply our better Selves (big 'S').
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Having been through breakups when you get back with the person thinking it's going to work the second time - it never does.
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I am very selfish when it comes to choosing a film. There is no strategy as such; I take up anything that gives me a kick.
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If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room, you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything.
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When I listen to hip-hop, it's like no big difference how people sing in my village, 'cause bling would be their cow.
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The world’s bumper sticker reads: Life sucks, and then you die. Perhaps Christian bumper stickers should read: Life sucks, but then you find hope and you can’t wait to die.
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I think it’s the right moment to talk about it because it is part of a revolutionary perspective - how can we not only discover more compassionate relations with human beings but how can we develop compassionate relations with the other creatures with whom we share this planet and that would mean challenging the whole capitalist industrial form of food production.
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When I perform in front of large audiences, I'm much more comfortable, because I've already performed in front of tiny audiences - which is much harder, honestly. The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.
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It’s hard to pin down what makes Weiss’ music so distinctive. Perhaps it’s that even in the ballads, the tone is upbeat, the outlook positive. The way Weiss writes - passionately, wittily and with respect for his fellow musicians - attests to his talent and appetite for creativity, and suggests a long, enjoyable career.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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Teaching people to become like Jesus, outside of the power of Jesus, dishonors Jesus.
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I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.
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I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that.
