Emily Haines Quotes
In Canada there's an extensive grant system that really allows people to make their work without having to suffer that much, and I'm staring to come around on that, that maybe people don't have to suffer. Maybe you can just not be unhappy and make beautiful music in Canada, maybe that's ok.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.
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I spoke with Abramovich. He is very simple and loves football. We were on the same wavelength: he wants to confirm Chelsea's position at the top.
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One of my biggest flaws is I don't take advice.
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I think the concept of polo that people had in the 1920s and the 1930s was much more accurate, when going to a polo match was seen as a great day out and great fun on a more popular level.
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I'd love to be the new Jools Holland, but you know, for, like, cooler people.
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Few [books] get translated and the ones that do have trouble making it into the mainstream. It's more likely that Americans will discover another culture through an American writer rather read a writer from that culture.
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Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.
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San Francisco. The one team that everyone in LA hates.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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In Canada there's an extensive grant system that really allows people to make their work without having to suffer that much, and I'm staring to come around on that, that maybe people don't have to suffer. Maybe you can just not be unhappy and make beautiful music in Canada, maybe that's ok.
