William Faulkner Quotes
In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.
William Faulkner
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When I've produced a song, I try to record a vocal over it, and sometimes it becomes really hard. Sometimes I've already said a lot that I want to say within the production. The vocal is just adding to it, rather than it being a song.
Sampha
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If Dana White can offer a contract that's not one-sided, and it's not cumbersome to the point where we look at it and realize that we can't fight for him, then we'll fight in the UFC.
Fedor Emelianenko
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I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available time for consuming any culture: T.V., movies, books. When I read, it's generally magazines, newspapers and web sites.
Ira Glass
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I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.
Olivia De Havilland
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When people are like, 'What do you think of this vampire craze?' - well, I don't really feel like it ever ended, personally, 'cause I've always been into them, like 'Underworld.'
Kat Graham
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Peacemaking and democratic state-building require blood and magic.
Ian Lustick
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I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody.
Olly Murs
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I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it.
Damon Albarn
Gorillaz
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
Pat Boone
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Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.
Walter Isaacson
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Many kids, particularly in lower-income families, would actually benefit from more structured activities. Plenty of children, especially teenagers, thrive on a busy schedule. But just as other trappings of modern childhood, from homework to technology, are subject to the law of diminishing returns, there is a danger of overscheduling the young.
Carl Honore
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The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.
Damian Lewis
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The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.
Stephen Sondheim
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I think when people try to use their art for political views, I think they're art becomes smaller, less interesting. And so for me, as an artist, I'm trying to speak about things in a universal way and not be pedantic or small-minded and try to convince other people of my political views. But having said that, every day I live in sort of complete terror because of what I read in the newspaper and what is going on in the world. I'm constantly, as I think many of us are, overwhelmed by the sort of, mass psychosis that's occurring.
Sean Lennon
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I'm a pop artist, and that's what I'll always be. I don't want to be a 'credible artist.'
Ronan Keating
Boyzone
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As a fine artist I was drawn to composition and technique. I would count the cuts.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
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Whether you call it radical jihadism or radical Islamism, I think they mean the same thing. I'm happy to say either.
Hillary Clinton
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In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.
William Faulkner
