Ian Astbury Quotes
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If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.
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'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.
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It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.
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Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s.
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For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street.
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I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.
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Envision what the end result is supposed to be... what do you want to be when you grow up? Where do you see yourself? Once we identify what the painting on the wall is, it is so much easier to bring in the right colors, canvas and brushes to paint that picture.
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I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.
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Culture is more important than politics and government.
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All good writing comes out of aloneness.
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Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.
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We came, we saw, he died.
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The best way to prepare to be a programmer is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.
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If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.
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I'm a technophobe. I can't crack the iPhone, and the extent of my multitasking is being able to talk while I make a drink.
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We want to make sure we get living astronauts to the surface of Mars.
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You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder.
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My dad was my coach in baseball and early on in basketball, so playing baseball was something we always did.
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I liked seventeen-year-old me, I was happy when I was seventeen. I was this troubled goth kid that wore eyeliner and make-up to school and listened to punk-rock music and I loved my friends and I started to make music - I like seventeen-year-old me.
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The goths are beautiful, a vast depth of subcultural, aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that as we did back in 1979. But not the post modern distortion...the costume without the brain.
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When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated.
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We never considered ourselves part of the goth thing.
