Rick Larsen Quotes
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
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I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
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I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
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My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'
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I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong.
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The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.
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It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.
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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
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I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty.
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You don't get a standing ovation and get boos, by the way. They don't go hand in hand.
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I'm quite happy being myself. I'm a big fan of Jessica Lange and Jeanne Moreau, but I don't want to be anyone else.
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Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
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There's a reason women are pregnant for nine months; by the end, you're ready to have this baby.
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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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I don't really do simple. I'm not really interested in simple at the end of the day, because nothing's ever simple, and nothing's ever perfect. People certainly aren't - I would hope, anyway, because that would be boring, wouldn't it?
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Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
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All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.
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Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it.
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[Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe them, because they make everything that happens relate to the lesson at hand.
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Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.
