Clarence John Laughlin Quotes
... dissatisfaction with one's self and dissatisfaction with the world - is necessary - it is one of the prime things that keeps the artist going on - that drives him - happiness, as such, must come in between times, as best it can.
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Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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Geneticists in the early 1900s believed that nature - in an effort to avoid wasting precious space within chromosomes - would pack as many genes into each chromosome as possible.
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When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.
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I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.
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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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The condition of rage is one in which I find myself starting my day - once I see the news headlines.
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That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.
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You don't know where life takes you.
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People call me a hermit. But I'm happy.
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The greatest of the greats wouldn't be the greatest of the greats if they didn't try stuff, you know what I mean?
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What bothered me most about chick lit, frankly, was how the term was used to dismiss a huge chunk of the bookstore as silly, girlish prattle.
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Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.
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Whenever there was a pause on the 'Hercules' set, everybody whipped their Blackberries out of their skirts - 'Are you texting the King of Thrace to tell them we're on our way?'
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When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
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The world today doesn't please me.
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A moment of something between acceptance and resignation of one's smallness in the world.
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We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.
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The thing that I love about pop music is the simplicity and the directness of it.
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... dissatisfaction with one's self and dissatisfaction with the world - is necessary - it is one of the prime things that keeps the artist going on - that drives him - happiness, as such, must come in between times, as best it can.
