Rick Moody Quotes
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.
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When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.
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The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.
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When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made. I never thought I would actually call him my boss, let alone meet Mick Jagger or have any reason to say my name in the same sentence as his.
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I have donated money to campaigns. And I have been known to take to the street in protest. But I am more committed to my immediate politics than general politics.
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Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
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Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
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With 'Aja,' there was a sort of happy conjunction between our tastes and the backgrounds and styles of studio musicians at the time.
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While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.'
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You simply cannot continue a nation as America without that Christian base of liberty.
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Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded.
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There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the brain. Based on this, people have calculated that the number of permutations and combinations of brain activity exceeds the number of elementary particles in the universe.
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I felt that from my end, I should deal with the thing itself, which is the event. I pretty much functioned like the media itself.
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Children are not a burden.
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I think that the movies I do are the ones that I really like the least. I don't like watching them because of that problem.
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Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.
