Walter Pater Quotes
The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
Quotes to Explore
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
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To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function.
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Forget thyself to marble.
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When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.
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In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
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Somebody wanted me to autograph her breast and I kindly refused. She was in college. I thought maybe I shouldn't do that.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
