Dusty Hill Quotes
The guy played all the way up to the end. I can dig that. What else are you going to do? You've got to go with the feeling. And that was Gatemouth.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.
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I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.
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If we come to the conclusion after 90 days that the synergies are big enough to justify the efforts, then we can go to the second step, which consists of saying: what would be the best organization and conditions - including shareholdings - in order to make sure the synergies happen.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.
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I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
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If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.
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The essential difference, which we meet in entering the realm of spirit and mind, seems to hang round the word 'Ought.'
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Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.
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Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.
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Sometimes you'll write while listening to a piece of music and think it's great, but then you'll go back and read it without the music and go, 'This sucks.'
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I try to have a lot of influences, which is to say not to have one specific influence too strongly; that can end up badly.
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When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero.
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Type is your brand.
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I didn't love Jim Morrison 'cause he was self-destructive. I loved him because of his work. Because of the way he merged poetry and rock-and-roll. Because he did something new.
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I think that in figure skating, and in sports in general, that when you're young, it's considered a huge advantage because you're fearless, and you also don't have bad past experiences. But with age comes experience, and I have found that my experience is a huge advantage to me as a competitor.
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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
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Writing is very hard: there will be weeks where I have nothing to write, and days I will get out three issues of the comic book as far as the outlines. It is a matter of there is nothing you can do about it – if the inspiration hits, it hits. If it doesn’t, there is nothing you can do to bring it out.
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When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me.
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The guy played all the way up to the end. I can dig that. What else are you going to do? You've got to go with the feeling. And that was Gatemouth.
