Ned Sublette Quotes
That spirit of mockery characteristic of the guaracha was part of the mambo from the beginning.
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Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
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But since we've been fighting for first or second place, it's grabbed the media's attention. I enjoy racing them. They are a good team and when you beat them it's something to be proud of.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.
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I always had confidence in my game.
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Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.
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I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.
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I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.
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Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reader is toyed with by someone who didn't decide herself who the killer was until the end of the writing.
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
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Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good.
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They draw back into themselves, and are thrown back on their own bodies for gratification. The men become narcissistic and uncertain of the power of any woman, no matter how strange and beautiful, to arouse their desire, but the women remain continually receptive to male advances.
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My heart goes out to many women that I've met across the country who barely make enough to make a living, and they want to have kids. That's very understandable, but what do you do with the kids?
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Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning.
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Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
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In L.A., we listen to everything. If it's banging, it's banging - we don't care where it's from.
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That spirit of mockery characteristic of the guaracha was part of the mambo from the beginning.
