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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Each color lives by its mysterious life.
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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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I try to catch every sentence, every word you and I say, and quickly lock all these sentences and words away in my literary storehouse because they might come in handy.
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People are looking for software development that actually does something useful... People are looking for partners who deliver when promised, and at a reasonable and transparent price. I believe that the days of being able to value price software are numbered.
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I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.
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I am so, so lucky. I am the luckiest girl in the world, really. And still with access to everything I could possibly want I still say 'Oh dear, what am I going to wear today?' There's no ending to that question!
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For me, it's not about breaking big in Hollywood, but having interesting experiences.
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If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.
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I'm not someone who is going to give in to a lot of pressure. I've always understood that everything is not always going to be good.
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Why, instead of bringing order - planting a tree, building a house, washing socks or reading a fairytale to a child - does one need to engage in doing nothing, then after a good booze, taking up a club and smashing everything?
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All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda.
