Rick Moody Quotes
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I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'
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I work in a very contained environment, usually.
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To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect the United States with the emerging historical context of the twenty-first century. He has done this remarkably well.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.
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The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.
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If you speak to anyone who's ever done time, the fact that you make it out of there alive is a miracle.
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I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.
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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
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The corporations are shoving just the worst music down everybody's throats, and I think the result of that is that nobody has any taste. They have no bar as to what is good.
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If I stopped making records or performing, I'd probably still be famous for a while being me. But I'd rather have something to show for myself.
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I keep my eyes open. I pay attention to how different types of people express their personal style, how they put their clothes together.
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How you staff, particularly the chief of staff, the national security adviser, your White House counsel, how you set up a process in the system to surface information and generate options for a president, understanding that ultimately the president is going to be the final decision-maker. That's something that has to be attended to right away.
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I don't care about preaching to the converted.
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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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It's always the story that interests me.
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Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.
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What genre it falls under is only of interest later.
