Black Francis Quotes
If I have more creativity that I want to get out of me, I try to find other ways than pursuing solo records so much.
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If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
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I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.
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The strongest institution in the hands of the European Union is the euro.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
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I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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I like to roller skate. I have been roller skating since I was eight.
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I didn't even start college until I was 21.
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We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that.
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It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
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I worked in a restaurant and in a nightclub cloakroom.
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I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up.
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I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
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Some records are going to be bigger than others. You're always going to be compared to your biggest record.
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Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
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If I have more creativity that I want to get out of me, I try to find other ways than pursuing solo records so much.
