Mojo Nixon Quotes
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.
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If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?
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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
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That's the problem today: Who is the creator?
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm certainly not like that, in a lot of ways.
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Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
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I've always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I've always just loved watching Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. In all of those old movies from the '40s and '50s, women put themselves together so well, with a little bit of drama and elegance. That was fascinating to me growing up.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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I like writing for teenagers because they're not snobs.
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I thrive with fashion and shopping and imports and things like that. It gives me a rush. I love Barneys New York and Neiman Marcus and all the top-of-the-line houses.
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Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.
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I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.
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I have mended fences with both my sisters. But do I have their families on my side? Not easily. My one sister, Florence, has two lawyers in the family and two doctors. Of course, I couldn't win that battle.
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I ended up working in Michigan for a young company called Sycor out of Michigan, worked there, and that company got bought by Northern Telecom. We became the Bell Northern Research Labs of Northern Telecom.
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That was FedEx Field the way I sure remember it, ... We needed everything we could get today to win this game.'
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How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power. Not only has the stature of the film remained undiminished by the passage of time (except in a few minor details), but the innovation, the audacity, and, for want of a better word, the modernity of the direction have acquired an even greater impact.
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The old metaphysical prejudice that man 'always thinks' has not yet entirely disappeared. I am myself inclined to hold that man really thinks very little and very seldom.
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It's incredible how quickly you fall back into where you left off, one of the good things about being away is to digest things and maybe learn from things and see if there are better ways to get to where you want to be.
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Music Tele-Vision should be covered in jism.
