Gary Giddins Quotes
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I was at a restaurant in Glasgow, and I was walking down the stairs. A woman passed me and said, 'Oh my God, what are you doing here?' I didn't know who she was, and I was like, 'Sorry?' She goes, 'Oh no, sorry, I follow you on Twitter. I just didn't expect to see you here.'
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A lot of my pieces are about easy seductiveness and accessibility in terms of showing skin.
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When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.
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I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.
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Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.
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Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.
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No matter how deep our darkness, he is deeper still.
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Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the 'working masses'.
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When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.
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I am trying to be a good person. I am trying to be myself, and if nobody likes me for me, that is their problem.
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There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!
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Do not be deceived by impostors.
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Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.
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It sucks. I used to be governor of New York.
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It sucks being fat, you know.
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The world is nothing but a big gimmick.
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I've just seen really, really funny guys, and if I didn't know them, I wouldn't know they were funny from the television. I don't know what it does, it just sucks it away.
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I don't like bad mouthing towns and just thinking that I live in such a great place. I mean, I would hate to live in a small town and have a public persona say, "That town sucks." I would really not want to hear that.
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I don't want to do a gimmick. It's a bummer that that's how it is. I would say, personally speaking, consuming music now is harder than it was before. It's like being stuck in a slot machine. There's just so much noise. It's just constant noise. It's harder to clear your head and give the time to music that a lot of it really deserves. It's really crazy how different your relationship to an album or music becomes, even if it's digital, if you spend the $7 to $10 on it. It forms this relationship where you're not just going to throw it away.
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When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway - in France we have Nathalie Sarraute - and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater. I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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My fantasy is that there is a new regulatory body that is in charge of algorithmic auditing.
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You've got to have a gimmick if your band sucks.
