Stephen Stills Quotes
The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.
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In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.
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In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic.
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I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run up to bowl. The perfect delivery stride is understandable because he is a world champion athlete. But the manner - he loaded at the crease and then bowled the ball - left me zapped. He looked like a natural cricketer.
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A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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Writing is what we do. What else could I want in a life partner than someone who knows and shares what I do?
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Life remains ambiguous as long as there is life. The question implied in the ambiguities of life derives to a new question, namely, that of the direction in which life moves. This is the question of history. Systematically speaking, history, characterized as it as by its direction
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Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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People come up to me at conventions and say, 'I was such an outcast, I felt like such a geek, and when I saw you, you made me feel like such a normal person.' It's my favorite thing to hear, because that's how I felt when I was a kid. If Goth would've been around, I would've definitely been Goth. But there wasn't such a thing, so I was just weird.
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Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
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The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art
