Malcolm Lowry Quotes
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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I watch Jay. I watch 'Letterman'. I flip back and forth between 'Conan' and 'Letterman', especially the top of the show for those guys.
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I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.
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I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.
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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
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Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the developing process seems to suggest such change, never being bound by any previous design.
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We can't stop anybody from doing what they want to do.
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Many people are insecure of many people.
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You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them.
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No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.
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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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The miracle is this: that you will rise in the morning and be able to see again the startling beauty of the day.
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Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens.
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What beauty can compare to that of a cantina in the early morning?
