Michael Moorcock (Michael John Moorcock) Quotes
What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum money. As a result, it lost its tensions, its anger, its edginess and turned into one big cup of cocoa.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.
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Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
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I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to calm myself down, to keep my perspective when I'm playing, to not make too big a deal of it... that's where I go to. The peace that comes with that allows me to play free golf.
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My parents moved around Stockton and Lodi. I had a lot of anxiety about jumping into another classroom. They were always putting me in special ed. But I was smart; I wasn't like these kids in the special-ed classes. But it would make me feel a little bit stupid.
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When I go out, I love steak and caviar.
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I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
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I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment.
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I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can connect with.
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I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to understand my roots.
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Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
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Je reculeÉbloui de me voir moi même tout vermeilEt d’avoir, moi, le coq, fait élever le soleil.
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Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there's no such thing as sin?
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The mere fact of having a Security Council meeting at ministerial level will send out a very sharp message indeed to the Syrians.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.
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The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.
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Yes, you can have it all, but not all at the same time. Set your own priorities, trust your gut and follow your heart.
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An engineer's invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes thought conform to existence.
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That the nation has found a consensus for its highest office in some one who has sprung from the grass-roots of our society and grown up in the dust and heat of this sacred land is symbolic of the fact that the concerns of the common man have now moved to the centre stage of our social and political life. It is this larger significance of my election rather than any personal sense of honour that makes me rejoice on this occasion.
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I shall be found with 'Indians' engraved on my brain when I am dead. A fire has been kindled within me, which will never go out.
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To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.
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What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum money. As a result, it lost its tensions, its anger, its edginess and turned into one big cup of cocoa.
