Alan Sillitoe Quotes
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that's not what I am.
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Each color lives by its mysterious life.
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I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.
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Any competent programmer has an API to cash, payments, escrow, wills, notaries, lotteries, dividends, micropayments, subscriptions, crowdfunding, and more.
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I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.
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I think Gotye is really dope. The music that I enjoy listening to isn't as intense as my music is.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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Artists are definitely, like, under a sort of microscope of scrutiny more than others.
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Here in L.A., you kind of get stuck in your own little dilemmas and your own little life, and hearing a story like Pocahontas' reminds you there's a bigger world out there, and there are so many more important things in life.
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You have to know why you get up every morning.
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Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?
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I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.
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My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.
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Great music is great music, period.
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Australia is a phenomenally beautiful country, and every time I go away and come back, it never ceases to amaze me.
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The ultimate aim in life should be to fulfill to the utmost all that within our ability and to share that which is good and beautiful.
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All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda.
