Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.
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I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.
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'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
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I think that's the ultimate sign of a teammate and respect is that they compete against one another so hard at practice that here's a chance to share some knowledge inside. It takes some humility to do that.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.
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When I'm writing, I mean what I'm saying - there's a lot of me in each song.
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
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The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.
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I think that I've had a very strange life.
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A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.
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People call me a hermit. But I'm happy.
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Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.
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The luxury we have when we do a series is that we go through a long journey, and it keeps a lot of information and things to be revealed.
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I was adopted into this incredible home, a loving, positive environment, yet I had this yearning, this kind of darkness that was also inside me.
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Writers in Britain aren't really celebrities. You become kind of a darling of a small set.
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I despise writing in general, but yeah, I love writing the stuff that I direct.
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When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.
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Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.
