Magnus Magnusson Quotes
There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.
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Fashion and music have always played off each other and certainly do for me; I love both so much. But there are definitely those moments when you're playing the right song at the right time in the right place, and it feels like the best job in the world.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.
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I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
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When I put a quarter into an arcade machine or call up an emulated game on my computer, I do it to escape the world that is a slave to the time that makes things fall apart. I have never played these games to occupy my world.
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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Our favorite holding period is forever.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
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Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
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The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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I have felt that connection and stewardship for Earth for as long as I can remember. And not just for Earth, but the whole universe.
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I do go to the gym five days a week.
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If a film or any piece of work doesn't entertain, it fails - and that is using the word entertain literally, meaning it holds you there and you become absorbed by it so that you don't walk away and get bored and so on.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.
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Flying, for some reason, has never been my favorite thing, but after taking some aviation classes and reading about it and learning about it... They've been doing this for over a hundred years, they've been to the moon and back; they kind of have a good system going here.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
