Damien Rice Quotes
The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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Most actors and actresses are performative as people.
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I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.
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I don't want to sound obnoxious, but I like to think I brought it another step. I was able to bring people who were casually interested in boxing together.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
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We seem, particularly over here in the West and in America in particular, to have forgotten that we are, in large measures, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves.
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Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds
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I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of vaginas. They bother me in the way that spiders bother some people.
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China and Russia play very different roles. They both are getting involved across the world in all different pockets. Their tentacles are everywhere. Russia is doing it through elections and through military actions and through trying to get involved in conversations. China is doing it economically. If you look at their infrastructure, they are everywhere in the world now and they want to continue to do that so that they have a stronghold.
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What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: 'Paint me just as I am.' Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it.
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I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.
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The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
