Cass McCombs Quotes
Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.
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I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.
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My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
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Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.
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I know one writer who has been subscribing authors without their permission and sending out what she thinks are helpful advice sheets, but they come off as if she's a know-it-all. She thinks she's marketing herself and her work. All she's really doing is turning readers off.
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You lose attitude when you feel too comfortable, so I prefer to wear clothes that have a certain edge to them.
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This is how I feel about the LGBT community: they are people just like us.
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The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.
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The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because of my 'liberal' view of human nature: I cannot believe in a state of original innocence, still less in a profound meaning in it, and I am always minimising the conception and the extent of Sin and the sinfulness of sex.
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As under cover of departing Day Slunk hunger-stricken Ramazan away, Once more within the Potter's house alone I stood, surrounded by the Shapes of Clay.
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Leave a message, don't leave a message. live, die, it's all the same dream.
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It's really fun to go back and forth from acting projects to directing projects. You don't have as much responsibility when you're acting, but you have more fun. But then you miss having that responsibility, and so you go back and torture yourself and make a movie.
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Koons's work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic values.
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It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.
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When I walk down the boardwalk, people stop me and say, 'Oh, your house is the one that glows.'
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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I have priorities. Maintaining my daughter is my first.
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Luck is a finite and rare substance in the universe, like palladium or cobalt. To use it, you have to take it from somebody else.
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Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.
