Cass McCombs Quotes
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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I have always liked to get my pictures taken, and I like taking care of my looks. But, I am not one to use beauty products and treatments.
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One needs to live every day according to God's commandments. And then any kind of difficulty or unpleasantness will be manageable.
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I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.
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Poverty is the worst form of violence.
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House passage is good news for the Northwest corner and our environment.
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It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.
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We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.
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We want to raise the children the parents aren't raising. I think we want to press individuality on people, though that doesn't necessarily mean being like us. But, it doesn't mean that if you come dressed like us that you aren't being yourself.
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And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.
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Together, we are prepared to lay a foundation for a more secure future for the entire world
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It's very difficult to do, especially when you get up in age, to go back out every single day with the same intensity.
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We do not evaluate the result but the starting point of the creative process. Precisely, this shows whether the form was discovered by starting from life, or for its own sake. That is why I consider the creative process so essential. Life for us is the decisive factor.
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Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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It's a real triumph taking a painting out from a pit-hole with a loose and open approach. Some aspects in its favour are those strange accidents that can produce amazing results.
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But perhaps this is what goes wrong with long marriages--you state your opinions, your likes and dislikes, at the beginning and then forget to mention when they change" (135).
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Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time.
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There are always moments of despair when you get close to jobs and lose them at the last second. It feels like getting punched in the stomach. You feel like, 'Why do I do this?' Then you go to bed, get up the next day and forget about it.
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Thank God we are not to be judged by the opinions of our fellows, but by the work that we do.
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Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.
