D. H. Lawrence Quotes
The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.
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Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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I don't like controversy.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.
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I don't think there is much American music.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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New York has an amazing history of farming and fishing that goes right back to the Pilgrim Fathers. At its core are the four seasons, which are distinct, well-established and similar to those in Lyon, where my family lives: when it's snowing in New York, a week later it will be snowing there.
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I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.
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There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
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I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people. Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I'd said in a book I wrote that I wasn't a believer. I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel. This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people's holding beliefs other than their own?
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In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
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In terms of my own experience, my dad is first-generation, so his parents were from China, and my mom was born and raised in southern Illinois, and she was involved in the arts. My dad's a doctor.
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The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.
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The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.
