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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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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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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Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
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One congressman asked 'I just want to know if you've accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior. The minister looked stunned, and he said 'no.' The whole table almost fell on the floor. The congressman was quite serious. That was his litmus test.
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If there's some work to be done that seems like it will be fun, I'll do it. I don't take anything seriously at all.
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No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't.
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After we shot the first 'Twilight,' we organized our own wrap party. We really didn't know what this was going to be. Something like that can come at you unexpectedly, and you just have to try your best to deal with it.
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For a writer it's a dream to sit and watch people as close as possible.
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Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.
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The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
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I've puzzled over the difficulty that students have with editing, and I think I've identified its source: It's their self-talk. We all talk to ourselves, inside our heads. That's what consciousness is.
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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.
