Cass McCombs Quotes

Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.

Cass McCombs

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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.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • House
  • Me
  • Weight

• 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.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Risk

• 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.

  

  Barbara Hershey
  • Good
  • American
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Father
  • Night
  • Small

• Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Work
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Happiness

• The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.

  

  Yash Chopra
  • Great
  • Love
  • Food

• Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • Life
  • Leadership
  • Easy

• 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.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Work
  • She
  • Advice

• You lose attitude when you feel too comfortable, so I prefer to wear clothes that have a certain edge to them.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Attitude
  • Lose
  • Clothes

• This is how I feel about the LGBT community: they are people just like us.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Community
  • Feel

• 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.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Good
  • Important
  • Writing

• 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.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • House
  • Alone

• Leave a message, don't leave a message. live, die, it's all the same dream.

  

  Ben Elton
  • Live
  • Dream
  • Die

• 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.

  

  Katie Aselton
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Responsibility

• 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.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Time
  • Work
  • Sick

• It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.

  

  Brad Henry
  • Democracy

• When I walk down the boardwalk, people stop me and say, 'Oh, your house is the one that glows.'

  

  Mary Matalin
  • People
  • House
  • Stop

• Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone's control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Life
  • Age

• The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

  

  Maimonides
  • Reason
  • Human
  • Limit

• I am a stronger follower of Veganism by principle, not just because of moral and aesthetic reasons. I truly believe in a Vegetarian lifestyle and I have faith and hopes in change in human destiny, thanks to the physical effects and benefits of a healthier diet and its influence on the character of the people. It will bring about some benefit and improvement to human society.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Human
  • Benefit
  • Bring

• Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.

  

  Publilius Syrus
  • Life
  • Long

• What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • World
  • Important
  • Love

• Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.

  

  Cass McCombs
  • Art
  • Human
  • Expressing