Tim Page Quotes
The ignorant are not satisfied with what can be demonstrated. Science is too slow for them, and so they invent creeds. They demand completeness. A sublime segment, a grand fragment, are of no value to them. They demand the complete circle — the entire structure.
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I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.
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All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.
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'Air' is very placeless - it's set in many different countries, and much of the story is about going places rather than being places. 'Air' is about travelers, and I'm a chronic traveler.
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
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But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.
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Part of my life is spent designing in urban centers, and part of my life has been spent in factories. But the other part of my life is spent in nature.
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I love the smell of a real Christmas tree - also, my mum's Christmas pudding with brandy sauce.
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From the very first, my countrymen have followed my literary career, now criticizing, now praising my work, but hardly ever letting a single word be buried in indifference.
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I had never danced all my life until I shot for my first song in 'Chirutha.'
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To succeed [,] consider what is as though it were past, deem yourself inevitable and take credit for it. If you no longer believe, enlarge the temple.
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They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look. - on librarians.
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Polls show that Arabs admire a lot of the Western values, cultural aspects in the West. It is more about policies than about way of life.
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You and I will always be friends. Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.
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Educated fools; from uneducated schools.
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Give more than is expected, love more than seems wise, serve more than seems necessary, and help more than is asked.
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Our most meaningful conversations go on late at night when we're on the phone with our friends or talking to our lovers.
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To me, right there, enough said - Kobe Bryant (third team), not acceptable.
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The question of art songs always came up with Gastr del Sol. I think Jim O'Rourke had it right in being clear that there's a tradition of art song - Ives being the touchstone for the two of us - and what we do doesn't belong to it. It wasn't important to advance those kinds of distinctions, but clearly he thought it was fanciful for anyone to speak of what we were doing as being in that tradition.
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If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
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The audiences like to think that satire is doing something. But, in fact, it is mostly to leave themselves satisfied. Satisfied rather than angry, which is what they should be.
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The ignorant are not satisfied with what can be demonstrated. Science is too slow for them, and so they invent creeds. They demand completeness. A sublime segment, a grand fragment, are of no value to them. They demand the complete circle — the entire structure.
