Emma Restall Orr Quotes
The way we see the world is not actually the world in itself. What we see is our idea of it. The truth is, we have no notion of what the world is other than through the veils of our perception.
Quotes to Explore
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.
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When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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You never know what the future brings.
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The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
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The brain, which is plastic when young, must be exposed to certain sights early in life, or it will remain blind to those sights forever.
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Tommy Smothers is a hero of mine.
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If you're not observing the world around you, in some sense you're not really an artist because then that means you're just replicating other people's stuff, or, I don't even know what you're doing.
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Zeroing in on the best sectors or the best regions of the world is great, but zeroing in on the very best individual stocks is the key to making truly impressive profits.
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I can't tell you how many things I've worked on where I sat on it for a few years, and then somebody else did something very similar. Whether it's some weird vocal effect you hear on another record, or a drum beat, or even a song title, a subject matter, or a mixture of different kinds of music.
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The way we see the world is not actually the world in itself. What we see is our idea of it. The truth is, we have no notion of what the world is other than through the veils of our perception.
