Isaac Rosenberg Quotes
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I'm very content.
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Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.
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New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
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How dull it is to have people defining you.
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Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
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Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
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It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
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I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.
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I'm a rock and roll singer.
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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
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Work done illegally outdoors or without permission feels like pure freedom to me. I understand how it can upset many in our society, but in the bigger picture, it is ultimately about freedom. We are living in a time where public space has become a commodity for corporations to control and dictate what is seen and heard.
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I don't care about being a literary personality - that doesn't appeal to me, especially because the literary world doesn't appeal to me. I actually don't feel like I even belong in it. If this was high school, I would be sitting with the Goths, looking at everyone, being like, 'Whatever.'
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How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?
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I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.
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My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor, and if fame follows suit, that's fine.
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Ideas must counter ideas. You can drop all the bombs you want, but if you don't pull up weeds by their roots, they just grow back.
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Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.
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The most important part of life is work, it's the flow, it's getting stuff done, feeling like you're doing something.
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The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.
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The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.
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Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.
