Ed O'Brien Quotes
A drunken evening that spawned probably my favourite track. Thom's one-take vocal crouching in the corner was particularly memorable, he may have been unable to stand. Love colin's bass groove thing on this.
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.
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Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.
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You kind of think people get sick of you after a while, but apparently not.
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All men begin their learning with Homer.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.
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Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
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I do love getting dressed up, but sometimes it's glam and edgy mixed together.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.
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I went to Moses Malone's golf tournament in Houston, and I've been hooked ever since.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.
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He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it.
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I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.
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Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.
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My characters are all "just people" - people you might know - and the things that happen are things that anybody might do if they lived on a freighter that spent most of its time in the Deep Dark.
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Being left makes you doubt your ability to keep people, even friends.
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Topshop is one of my favourite shops, and I love shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti. There's a graduate fashion designer called Kate Falcus who makes me beautiful commissioned pieces - one of my favourites was the white Glastonbury dress she made me with the puffy skirt.
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I was in art school, and we had all these random classes. We'd listen to a lot of Bollywood. I'd listen to Spanish music - and I don't even speak Spanish, but Hector Lavoe is amazing - we listened to French music like Edith Piaf. She's tight. I like cool vocal inflections; I like cool sounds. I pretty much listen to anything I think is good.
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A drunken evening that spawned probably my favourite track. Thom's one-take vocal crouching in the corner was particularly memorable, he may have been unable to stand. Love colin's bass groove thing on this.
