Karan Casey Quotes
Today I have a choice. I can resist reality and suffer pain or peacefully accept what I cannot change.
Quotes to Explore
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There is no must in art because art is free.
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.
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Over the years, I've heard a lot of people who don't feel that they have it in them to do anything creative. They shrug and claim that they 'have no talent.' They say things like, 'Don't quit your day job' or 'Leave it to the professionals.' In the steampunk subculture, I don't hear those things.
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I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.
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A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
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I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
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Vanity is as old as the mammoth.
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A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.
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Musically, though, you're a character and you're singing a song. If you're not your own character, you're the character in the song, most of the time. Even blues musicians, a lot of them who were the most realistic, at times, they were singing a song and portraying a character in the song. There's something to be said for getting involved in the emotion of a song, too, with the characters.
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Taking the time to build community, to get to know your people will have long-lasting benefits.
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If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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Intuitive seeming is in my view an attraction to assent based on nothing more than understanding of the content that upon consideration attracts one's assent. But such understanding-based attraction can differ dramatically in epistemic quality. Some such attractions represent nothing more than superstition or bias absorbed from the culture, sans ratiocination.
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Today I have a choice. I can resist reality and suffer pain or peacefully accept what I cannot change.
