Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.
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Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
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Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically, they don't know how they do it. Most people, when they have a good experience writing, they're well placed in that state, which is also sometimes called a 'flow state.' If you don't have trouble, you don't have to think about it.
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I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.
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I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.
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Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.
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The misperception about the South is that everybody is racist, and all black people are victims, that what was prevalent in the '60s is only relegated to the South.
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Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.
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I love people who dress how they feel and change it depending on the day.
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Traditionally with debut albums, labels insist on a face, so people know who you are.
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Humour allows people to exhale a little.
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A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated.
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
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I pick up on other people's discomfort.
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I've read every single fantasy novel there is. I mean, I would challenge a lot of people to read more fantasy novels than I have.
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Yeah, 'Gossip Girl' is a good show. It's a real New York show, like 'Sex and the City.'
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I admire American women because they are really good at putting a look together that is sophisticated. As British girls, we lean toward being a bit more messy, a bit more undone, and maybe a little more eccentric.
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In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an epistemological subject.
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People still try to sell books that way - as 'books can take you to foreign lands.' We've given children this idea that reading and books are a nice option, if you want that kind of thing. I hope we can get over that idea.
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If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
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The large majority of people are asleep and do not wish to wake up.
