Gary Clark Jr. Quotes
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
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Second-generation Muslims who have lived all their lives in Europe are turning up among the suicide bombers and terrorists.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
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Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.
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The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.
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Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.
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The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a brood mare band is about 10.
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.
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Somewhere during the 'Next to Normal' Broadway run, I found myself learning more about myself onstage than in real life, and I truly realized the beautiful, tremendous, extraordinary gift that is performing.
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I enjoy hitting tennis balls. I haven't lost any of the innocent parts of tennis. I just do it in front of less people.
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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
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I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.
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When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.
