Kathleen Raine Quotes
Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
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In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.
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Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them.
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Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.
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Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.
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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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I've got to tell you, I'm not really a tie man. I'll wear a tie if I have to: If I'm standing in the dock and it looks like I'm facing 20 years, then I'll definitely wear the tie!
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At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.
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I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?
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The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time.
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My style is determined by the mood, the period and the circumstances which I'm going through in a given moment.
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I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.
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Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves.
