Van Morrison Quotes
If you're with a good band and everybody's from the old school, it's different. When you're in your element, you're in your element and things just come. You don't have to drag them out or force them out. They just happen.
Quotes to Explore
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.
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Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.
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When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I have no desire to enter politics. Because I am not suited for that.
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Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.
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For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence.
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They called me 'Doc.' You know... it's probably one of the best titles I've ever had.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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I can do a really good animal impression! I'm great at ducks, cats, dogs, and occasionally dolphins.
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If you're with a good band and everybody's from the old school, it's different. When you're in your element, you're in your element and things just come. You don't have to drag them out or force them out. They just happen.
