William Shenstone Quotes
Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.
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Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
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My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
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My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.
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The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.
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The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'
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That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
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No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
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Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.
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I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.
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Pilates is great.
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War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a victim, from the one who's suffering pain to the person inflicting it.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.
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Contemporary moral philosophy has found an original way of being boring, which is by not discussing moral issues at all.
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I know it wasn't the dinner wine that had me against the wall in a fit of remorse. It was the thought of my mother being so lonesome she had to sit on a street bench, so lonesome she missed the company of a homeless shopping bag woman. Even in the bad days in Limerick she always had an open hand and an open door and why couldn't I be like that to her?
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I think I've also grown a little bit in that I'm not so easily dissuaded if I really believe something.
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The girls in kindergarten would chase us boys around trying to kiss us. I'm proud to say I was the first to stop running.
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Our mistakes, blunders, flaws, and shortcomings notwithstanding, the world America made after 1945 and 1989 has enjoyed the longest period of general peace in the west since Roman times, and decades of prosperity.
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Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.
