Eugenio Montale Quotes
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.
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When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.
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My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
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I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the page, it's a garden shed. And then you just try to make it the best shed you can.
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I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth.
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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I don't separate things out between what's personal and what's my work. My passion is personal.
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I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.
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Look, natural gas, just like oil, is going to eventually go away. It's not renewable.
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I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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The last time I was in there to set up for a surgery, I was sitting in the waiting room ... watching television. And a special came on the news about a guy who got AIDS from re-used medical equipment in the VA. It was the same procedure I was fixing to get. I'm gone. Deuces. I walked out, man.
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This country isn't a melting pot. Think of this country as a stir fry. That's what this country should be. A place where people are appreciated for who they are.
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Most importantly, I want my kids to be happy. You're only as happy as your saddest kid.
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If we had a truth-in Government act comparable to the truth-in-advertising law, every note issued by the Treasury would be obliged to include a sentence stating: This note will be redeemed with the proceeds from an identical note which will be sold to the public when this one comes due.
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For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.
