Dana Rosemary Scallon Quotes
Do you need an audience to create work, or does not having an audience liberate you and make you a truer artist?
Quotes to Explore
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Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
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I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
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Hamas has effectively kidnapped Gaza. Instead of turning it into the Singapore of the Middle East that was promised, they have turned it into a fortress of terror.
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Peacemaking and democratic state-building require blood and magic.
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I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it.
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
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I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.
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When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.
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When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.
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I like to be who I am.
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I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.
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Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.
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Charity creates a multitude of sins.
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I kind of dress like a boy from the nineties. I like wearing baseball hats. I just like to be really comfortable.
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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
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The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello.
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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
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When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh.
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For instance, our country wanted to effect a revolution, and did effect it, and now we are building a new classless society.
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Whether you're writing a book or a song or whatever, you've got to be involved in it. It's got to come from the heart I think...that's what it's all about.
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When a young man, I read somewhere the following: God the Almighty said, 'All that is too complex is unnecessary, and it is simple that is needed.' So this has been my lifetime motto – I have been creating weapons to defend the borders of my fatherland, to be simple and reliable.
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Do you need an audience to create work, or does not having an audience liberate you and make you a truer artist?
