OMI Quotes
My father had a passion for love. It's mostly what he talked about in his songs, and I still have his old records today.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.
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I really hate to write.
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Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.
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I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?
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I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
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I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.
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Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
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The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.
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writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're a harassed tribe, we writers.
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It's love. It's two men - two strong, very virile men - finding that space in life where they can let go enough of their masculinity to feel the passion of love and respect and trust. Friendships are based on those things, and you seal it with a kiss.
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My mom was always someone who if, even now, I say I met a certain famous person, she always says, "She's married to so and so!"
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
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My father had a passion for love. It's mostly what he talked about in his songs, and I still have his old records today.
