Alain J. P. Belda Quotes
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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I feel like I've forcefully been thrust into the tech world, and I've enjoyed every minute of it.
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I love running and I will always run.
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Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.
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I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.
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There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.
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Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.
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I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.
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I'm not a libertarian in the sense that I think all these social programs should be abolished in any sense.
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The greatest of vices according to Buddha is the lazy yielding to the impulses of temperament (pamada); the greatest virtue (appamada) is the opposite of this, the awakening from the sloth and lethargy of the senses, the constant exercise of the active will.
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One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.
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Wouldn't it have been better to change humanity so it no longer desired to destroy itself?
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Although we all make mistakes in life, the problems occur when we try to hide our mistakes, to cover them up rather than to learn from them and allow other people to learn from them.
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Our redneck reputation back then was originally just because we had long hair. Back in the '60s and the early '70s, in the South that was kind of a no-no. At all the Army and Navy bases we'd play, we would get into fights with the soldiers over our hair. But I think our music overshadowed everything else.
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Perfectionism is really a challenge for me, and it causes me to be super-critical of myself in so many ways: about body image constantly; about parenting; about being a mother.
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My job will not be easy but I am convinced the problems will be solved in a quicker and more efficient way if there is unity and consensus.
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I'm usually in control of the room, but if I sense some kind of hostility, I address it. Occasionally, there are pockets of homophobia, and it's not just the South - it's all over the country.
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The small amount of people that control the discourse around painting - I thought that the whole museum world was just a bunch of phonies, and I didn't really want to have anything to do with it. I guess I did installations, in a funny way, because they couldn't be commodified.
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I know actors who have had to turn down good roles because they just don't pay enough. It's hard.
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I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.
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We are focused on managing what is under our control.
