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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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
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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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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
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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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If you put me in the fairway at my average distance into a par 4, 175 to 180 yards, and you put another player in the rough 120 yards from the green, over time, I'm going to wear him out.
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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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I think cycling has always had a tradition of being a bit dapper, especially back in the day.
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I probably have the crappiest tattoo - not only in country music - but maybe the world.
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I was doing something that the officials or art commission probably didn't consider important... I was experimenting with different kinds of realistic art, impressionism and the more decorative compositions of different forms of painting, which took away from the earlier photographic realism that I was doing.
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I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.
