Thomas Dewar Quotes
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People trash talk me.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
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I don't think I can name any names or anything, but this is what I've wanted to do for a long time: to have Flume as my creative outlet and to work on the biggest songs in the world, like pop, and come up with the idea and send it off.
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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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All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?
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I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, and that's the song that nobody talks about. It's weird.
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I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.
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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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I'm not too interested in books about India.
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I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else. I’ve done it my whole career. And the head fake here is that they’re learning to program but they just think they’re making movies and video games.
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She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season.
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We do not have that much to moan about when one thinks of what people did not moan about before.
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Epops: Come let me see, what shall the name be for our city? ... Euelpides: Hence, from the clouds, and these meteoric regions, some all-swelling name. Pisthetaerus: Would you 'Cloud-cuckoo-land?' (tr. Warter 1830, p. 215)
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John Howard's credibility on the entire Iraq war has been torpedoed by John Howard's own intelligence agency.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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One motivation for the 'Soul Train' awards was the grumbling that all of us in the industry have heard about the way black music tends to be viewed as a secondary phenomenon by the other awards shows.
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You can't have nine children and not be organized. Otherwise it just looks like Appalachia.
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Sundance felt like a natural fit. I love coming here, and I do think that this festival suits my films rather than most of the festivals I've been to. I'm not going to Cannes, you know.
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Your mind and habits will create either barriers or bridges to a better future.
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Part of the creative journey for me was not to come up the conventional route. I didn't go through drama school. I chose not to. I came from a very working-class area, a child of Nigerian immigrants.
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Minds, like parachutes, only function when they are open.
