Sebastian Horsley Quotes
An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I have always been fascinated by blood. Pain can be vitalizing; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?
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I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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While conducting a conventional war in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has staged terrorist attacks on a global scale against the people from the countries who are fighting ISIS.
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The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
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I started out doing musicals.
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I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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I'm filming the next two installments of the 'Fifty Shades' movies back-to-back.
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I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.
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Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it.
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When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
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The formula for a hit is saying what people want to hear.
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I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
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There should be a place and the space for all pop.
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If we choose the easy way, by letting another think for us, we must eventually tread the hard way. If we select the hard way, by insisting upon our own mental integrity, we eventually come to the easy way.
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The ideals of liberalism have been divorced from any realities of modern social structure that might serve as the means of their realization. ... The detachment of liberalism from the facts of a going society make it an excellent mask for those who do not, cannot, or will not do what would have to be done to realize its ideals.
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It came into existence because I had to paint it. Any attempt on my part to say something about it, to attempt explanation of the inexplicable, could only destroy it. 1947, on his painting 'She wolf'
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Sometimes you have to go through the wilderness before you get to the Promised Land.
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The woman is the fiber of the nation. She is the producer of life. A nation is only as good as its women.
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We have been so long in a downward spin, the angels are calling us up. We are meant to fly and with our spirits we can. We are meant to ascend, to transmute the negative mass of the worlds corrupted thought forms. No one asked us to stay so long away from heaven, away from joy.
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The most important thing to do as an artist is to get out of your comfort zone and work with different people: people who can't read a note of music, people who have incredible classical skills, blues and jazz musicians, pop artists, visual artists, dancers and actors. Learn from people who are creative in a different way to you and you'll keep evolving.
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My first Grammy nomination? I was 24 - I was nominated for best new artist of the year.
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An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I have always been fascinated by blood. Pain can be vitalizing; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?
