Adam Foulds Quotes
She wanted to stay out there, to hang on her branch in the world until the cold had burned down to her bones. She could leave her whitened bones scattered on the snow and depart like light. Whitened bones. A whited sepulcher.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.
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I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.
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It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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I've definitely had my moments in relationships where I've been able to say yes, I have been heartbroken, my heart has been broken.
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We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.
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Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.
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I learned, practically in my cradle (actually from Bill McMillan's thesis), that the ground state wave function of a system of bosons should necessarily be real and positive, a fact which made his early Monte Carlo simulations infinitely easier.
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One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.
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Something is guiding my career; I don't know what it is. When I look back at my career, I call myself the most lucky actor in the world. It is all I have ever done. I do master classes, and I tell people not to use me as an example. I do not know anyone like me - not to brag - it is just very unusual.
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I like the opportunity to travel the world and work in close company with other people.
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The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.
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She wanted to stay out there, to hang on her branch in the world until the cold had burned down to her bones. She could leave her whitened bones scattered on the snow and depart like light. Whitened bones. A whited sepulcher.
