William Gurnall Quotes
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Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
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If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
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I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.
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My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
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The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
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Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.
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Very few of us can stop our lives and become activists.
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After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela.
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I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.
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We're seeing a reaction - and people taking to the streets with pots and pans - in areas where the independence movement isn't supposed to exist. People have to choose between one model and another. Everyone in Catalonia has realised that not taking part means ratifying the politics of repression of the Spanish government.
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I may write about place and displacement, but what I'm really writing about is dispersion, evasion, ambivalence: not so much a subject as a move in everything I write.
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If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.
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We should not seek to tune out the realists' whines or taunts, as they may provide good instruction.
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I was like the family clown. The middle child entertaining. I was a lousy student, but interestingly, the nuns always let me write plays or do drawings, endless special projects.
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I had a blog where I tried to be transparent while giving away nothing. I tweeted and Facebooked badly. As a writer, your 'voice' is your calling card, yet my voice was becoming indistinguishable from billions of other voices.
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Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.
