Chad VanGaalen Quotes
I just love visual art because I don't have to turn anything on, or make sure my compressors are working and the microphones are set up. I just kind of take the cap off my pen, and if it runs out I throw it in the recycling bin and grab another pen.
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The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.
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I am a pretty level-headed person, but that person, Harry Reid, has been the most destructive entity in Washington when it comes to civility. By far.
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In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.
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I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can.
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I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
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Sometimes art is ahead of revolution.
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He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'when!'
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Every year, I say the Seahawks are going to win the Super Bowl. There's no doubt in my mind every single year. And you have to keep in mind this was well before the Seahawks were good. This was, like, 2-14, drafting-Rick-Mirer Seahawks. I would still be saying they were going to win the Super Bowl.
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Sometimes I get very dressed up just to go to the corner for some bread; I dress for my own amusement.
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People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don't believe globalisation is bad. It's criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity.
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Surviving is the only glory in war.
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I do tend to overdo everything.
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Lunch was my favorite part at school.
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When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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Most simply but profoundly, I chose to live an honest life, which I think as a gay person is not a given.
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
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We had the support of the Democratic sheriff of my parish which was the popular Democratic Sheriff of my parish, Harry Lee who was Chinese by the way.He supported me and actually I supported him too, he was a good man.
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I love working the legislative process.
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I do think that my Indian classical audiences thought I was sacrificing them through working with George; I became known as the 'fifth Beatle.' In India, they thought I was mad.
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I just love visual art because I don't have to turn anything on, or make sure my compressors are working and the microphones are set up. I just kind of take the cap off my pen, and if it runs out I throw it in the recycling bin and grab another pen.
