Flume Quotes
I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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If you see it in your mind, you can hold it in your mind.
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It really is the height of irresponsibility, and it appears to be a calculated effort to mislead people for personal monetary gain.
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I thought that biology and macro economies, especially, was fairly related between the systems level, and so I graduated the university with a degree in Genetic Engineering and Economies, and I moved to San Francisco to try out how to make money with just the ideas itself.
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Leanness of body and soul may go together.
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When the earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, I was on vacation in the Cayman Islands.
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I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
