Ray LaMontagne Quotes
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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I usually say I left puberty at 58.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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In 1979, when I was 39, I had such a bad year, I thought it was all over. Thankfully it wasn't.
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I don't think I'm as educated as Whoopi, so I'm lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it means to be here, are similar.
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Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
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With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.
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When I went to the 'Rush' audition, I was blown away by the script. I thought it was fantastic.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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Bald is the new black!
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If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.
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Too many companies think they want to do a video blog to sell merchandise, but if you turn your site into QVC, you lose. I have an audience that trusts me. It's about building a global brand - not selling four more bottles of Pinot Grigio.
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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The remediableness criterion is an effort to deal symmetrically with real world institutions, both public and private, warts and all. The criterion is this: an extant mode of organization for which no superior feasible form of organization can be described and implemented with expected net gains is presumed to be efficient.
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I've never thought it was necessary to make fun of people - you can find fun in people without necessarily mocking them.
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As a child, I amused myself by making up stories. I'd lie in bed when I was supposed to be sleeping and imagine other lands where people were doing fascinating things. By fifth grade, I knew I wanted to be a writer, but it took several more decades to really find my way as an author.
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I think of myself as more additive than initially creative; I don't come up with the stories.
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I have a record of wanting to make sure that campaigns are open and financing is fair, but it can't just be one sided.
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A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.
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I don't like myself, and I don't like to be looked at.
