Vita Sackville-West Quotes
It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.
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I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.
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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
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I haven't watched that much TV, to be honest. To be honest, I don't watch that many films anymore - partly because I don't have time; secondly, because I watch a lot of sports, and I love watching sports.
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Gossip is easy, politics is hard.
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I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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People are people, and I get a bit annoyed that the music business only focuses in on the big metropolises. I find that people that don't live in big cities are just as likely to enjoy music as people that do live in big cities.
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One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.
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Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
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So far as living instruments of labour are concerned, for instance horses, their reproduction is timed by nature itself. Their average lifetime as instruments of labour is determined by the laws of nature. As soon as this term has expired they must be replaced by new ones. A horse cannot be replaced piecemeal; it must be replaced by another horse.
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Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.
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The mark of a good party is that you wake up the next morning wanting to change your name and start a new life in a different city.
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It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.
