Oliver Sykes (Oliver Scott "Oli" Sykes) Quotes
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.'
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Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
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If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
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Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
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I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.
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Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
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In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.
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In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.
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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
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A small film from a small country, in Arabic with nonprofessionals: It was practically impossible. Just to make it was like a dream to me.
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As a designer, I'm not a guy that can be put in a niche.
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The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void. We need both.
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They say that all the Cats whose wicked deeds are widely known (I might mention Mungojerrie, I might mention Griddlebone) Are nothing more than agents for the Cat who all the time Just controls their operations: the Napoleon of Crime!
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So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.
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I'm a huge believer in evolution (not in the sense that 'it happened' – anybody who doesn't believe that is either uninformed or crazy, but in the sense 'the processes of evolution are really fundamental, and should probably be at least thought about in pretty much any context').
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He's one of my closest friends in the industry. He makes me feel like a teenager - I have to act and think like an adult so much. He makes me feel young again.
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Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.
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It's hard to make a lot of pop culture references where there's no pop culture.
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With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.
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When in your last hour (think of this) all faculty in the broken spirit shall fade away, and sink into inanity - imagination, thought, effort, enjoyment - then will the flower of belief, which blossoms even in the night, remain to refresh you with its fragrance in the last darkness.
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Reading aloud to other people is wonderful - if you have people who will suffer it.
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Save me from the ones that haunt me in the night.
