Black Francis Quotes
This is a particular thing, you know, catholic stories of martyrs who had their head removed and then continued to be miraculous in the last moments of their life.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.
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I've only ever tried to be me.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.
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I can look at a photo and the dimensions of any piece and tell you if it's going to sit well with the four other pieces in your room.
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
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In other periods of depression it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but as I look about, I now see nothing to give ground for hope - nothing of man. But there is still religion, which is the same yesterday, today, and forever. That continues as a solid basis for hope and courage.
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I've always been able to recount things, and I have a really good memory about dialog and what people have said before and this and that.
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I'm rather a cynic, I suppose. I do not believe in the niceness of humanity.
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I hardly follow the Finnish metal scene at all at the moment. I'm more interested in traditional '80s heavy metal, and I'm still a little scared of black metal and death metal and their provocative imagery.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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This is a particular thing, you know, catholic stories of martyrs who had their head removed and then continued to be miraculous in the last moments of their life.
