Keith Fullerton Whitman Quotes
I love collecting; my joy is finding private press American or European home studio electronic music from the 60s and 70s.
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I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.
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Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.
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Before I got into electronic games, I was making table-top games.
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I've done big studio films and the big studio films I've done, I've tried to do the interesting ones and the ones where I could live with myself in the morning.
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You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.
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Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.
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You write a screenplay and then everybody is going to want to get in on it and we have to figure that out. I've written three screenplays that are at studios and I still haven't been making them yet so there is always something that is either going to trip something up or maybe get another pass.
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During the Vietnam War era people were concerned about what was going on economically in their lives, and film studios were worried about what was going on with the box office
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Is it important that the rent of land be retained as a source of government revenue. Some persons who could make excellent use of land would be unable to raise money for the purchase price. Collecting rent annually provides access to land for persons with limited access to credit.
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If I collected all the diamonds in the world, I'd have no 'income' but I'd have a lot of 'assets'. Would my company be worth nothing because I have no income? A lot of Net companies are collecting assets. They have to be measured with a new set of metrics.
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Desire presses ever forward unsubdued.
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[Bananarama] were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press
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I am a session guy and a studio musician and whatever you need me to do I will do it.
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I used to go to work and take heroin in the studio and then stop when I came home.
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Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.
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Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.
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Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to illustrate by the assembling of significant reliques, the march of the human spirit in its quest for beauty.
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I don't think an NC-17 rating is the kiss of death. Nor do I think that, in the hands of the right filmmakers, studios have a preconceived notion to pass on NC-17 material.
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We have to understand that people are different. I don't know, if we really understand who we're dealing with over there.
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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
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Mine, said the stone,mine is the hour.I crush the scissors,such is my power.Stronger than wishes,my power, alone.Mine, said the paper,mine are the wordsthat smother the stonewith imagined birds,reams of them, flownfrom the mind of the shaper.Mine, said the scissors,mine all the knivesgashing through paper'sethereal lives;nothing's so properas tattering wishes.As stone crushes scissors,as paper snuffs stoneand scissors cut paper,all end alone.So heap up your paperand scissor your wishesand uproot the stonefrom the top of the hill.They all end aloneas you will, you will.
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I got to see first hand what he has done to make this a reality. That has been real rewarding to watch him achieve his dream.
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I love collecting; my joy is finding private press American or European home studio electronic music from the 60s and 70s.
