Ed O'Brien Quotes
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Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.
Waylon Jennings
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
Pablo Picasso
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Less make-up is better, and it's always better to let your natural beauty shine. Essentially, be happy with your appearance.
Park Shin-hye
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
Patrick deWitt
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
Rainbow Rowell
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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.
Ilana Glazer
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
J. F. C. Fuller
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I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.
Aaron Swartz
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After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
Zubin Mehta
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The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.
Walter Wriston
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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I wrote 'Buried Child' in a trailer at an old ranch house we had in California.
Sam Shepard
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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it. You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
Nas
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Getting a new passport took me a stupid amount of time. I had to go back five times with different photographs because they kept saying I was smiling, which is against the rules. I was not smiling.
Sally Phillips
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I definitely do weird things every show.
Kristen Schaal
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
V. S. Naipaul
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I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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We are a weird bunch, we are very disparate.
Ed O'Brien
Radiohead
