Rex Orange County Quotes
The moment you start thinking about what other people and other artists think, you're going to start writing like other people.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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I fight because I like challenges.
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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
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My priorities are making sure we reduce class size and close the achievement gap.
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I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I would like modern readers to have an appreciation of this.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.
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I like being involved in interesting and creative things. I'd just rather be involved in creating it, rather than being in it.
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We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.
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I think often, and never without a certain fear of Nessim's love for Justine. - It coloured his unhappiness with a kind of ecstasy - Yet one touch of humour would have saved him from such dreadful comprehensive suffering.
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I thought: 'Gosh, it really has been worth the wait.' And I think had I gone with Evita, I probably wouldn't have been ready to deal with it. It was just the most perfect time to go with that particular show.
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I've got the best of all worlds. It's every actor's dream to wake up in New York City and go to an acting job rather than to a restaurant to wash dirty dishes. And I live so close to the studios that I ride my bike to work.
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I think you can't really beat Bob Marley, especially the stuff he was doing with Lee Perry. Just that kind of clubby and dark and crazy stuff, even with the Wailers... Some of the songwriting was phenomenal.
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I know I have a responsibility as a role model to children and I try to fulfill that.
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I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.
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I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way.
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Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.
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A lot of my best stuff is just ad libs on stage, and that's one thing that I've gotten back to at the live show.
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Being against other people's policies eventually puts you in a downward spiral. It's fine to be principled and oppose views that you don't agree with, but you also have to have an alternative.
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A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.
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We must not let ourselves be seen as rushing around the world looking for arguments... Nor should we let ourselves be seen as ignoring allies, disillusioning friends, thinking only of ourselves in the most narrow terms. That is not how we survived the 20th century. Nor will it serve in the 21st.
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As soon as I broke my foot, I remember thinking that I'm going to make this the best thing that's ever happened to me.
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Someone once asked me "If your life could be extended to 150 and you could start another career, would you?" And I said "No, thanks, I think I'll stick at this."
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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
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The moment you start thinking about what other people and other artists think, you're going to start writing like other people.
