William H. Gass Quotes
The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.
Quotes to Explore
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I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
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Folks like me have to feel a little indebted to the communities that they came from. And if they do, I think we'll start to see a little bit more of a geographic integration in the country because people will start to think, 'You know what? I owe that place something, and I should return to it in one form or another.'
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We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio.
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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
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I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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I think gymnastics was associated with the 10. I thought that belonged to the sport, and somehow we gave it way.
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I am a bit of a Pollyanna - I spend most of my day happy.
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There's men and women out there protecting and serving, doing it the right way, that aren't talked about.
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I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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Young people today have lots of experience ... interacting with new technologies, but a lot less so of creating or expressing themselves with new technologies. It's almost as if they can read but not write.
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The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.
