Blaine Hogan Quotes
In the end, the effectiveness of our creative process comes down to whether we’re going to whine or do the work.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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I think as an actor you're used to having to travel, so wherever the work, is you're willing to go.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.
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The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.
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I just had a normal African childhood; we played football a lot, but it was always in the street and always without shoes. Boots were very expensive, and when there are seven in your family, and you say you want to buy a pair, your father wants to kill you.
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Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there.
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I don't calculate my net worth.
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For me, if something fits properly, it makes me feel good.
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I definitely was in the sequined, bedazzled era. We would put blue eye shadow up our eyebrows and glitter all over our faces. I probably put more effort into my skating outfits than my clothes.
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Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes.
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I've got a couple of those Gossard Wonderbras. They are so brilliant, I swear, even I get cleavage with them.
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I cannot ever accept the kind of conditions where you can sacrifice someone’s rights.
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I don't know if anybody will ever be as good as Hendrix again.
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Racism has its boot squarely wedged on the neck of black communities, and we don't want to be told that hard work and responsibility are the answer.
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If you look at men's roles for the last thousand years, the desire is fundamental. We want to take care of, provide for, and be of service to... women.
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With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.
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A lot of the early Washed Out material was done on a couple of synthesizers that did most of the work, but that's the great thing about synths - you can recreate sounds or make an entire record with just one piece of gear.
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I like what I do, and I'm very fortunate now to be in a very nice place. Which is that I don't have to work anymore. So the work that I do now is purely because I really want to.
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Perhaps, for once, we should try interventions that are informed by science and proven to work.
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It Might As Well Be Spring... I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked it up again and it spoke to me in a whole new way.
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In the end, the effectiveness of our creative process comes down to whether we’re going to whine or do the work.
