Eugene Manlove Rhodes Quotes
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To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
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What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.
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What we wanted to do was tell a story that felt relatable to anyone who's been a teenager. We haven't all been a second-generation Pakistani-American girl with superpowers, but we've all been 16 and awkward.
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I am a very, very avid 'Anchorman' fan.
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My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English.
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In those one-off games, everyone can do those, but you put together a six, seven-game tournament, the strong survive. For me to still feel good from beginning to end, that's a testament to how I train and what I do.
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He was short on the one attribute certain to meet the immediate respect of the rich - i.e. being rich - and must therefore obtrude deterrents against being buggered about.
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I'm one of those guys that spins through the clicker when I'm watching TV. When one of my movies comes on, I'll watch a scene or two.
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Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize.
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Astrology's a moving system that depends on where you're looking at it from on Earth. My horoscope here in London would be completely different to down in New Zealand.
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The more games I play, the more I feel comfortable.
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Sometimes, after I finish the lyrics and have all the melodies and harmonies and the pop and vocal, I'll be like, 'I have to keep it. I love it too much.'
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Songs lay a foundation of who I am going to be forever.
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Some people, especially literary people, they think, 'I'll write this original script, and it will be full of ideas. I'll submit it, and they'll hire me for television.' That's not the case.
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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
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Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job.
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I think any good artist - and I'm not saying that I am one - takes notes and should first emulate their heroes and then try to move beyond them.
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I write, I sing, I play... I Amazing Race! Broken Bow recording artist... I'm one third of Runaway June
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Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist?
