David Grubbs Quotes
The word "archive" seems so reassuring, but I'm not sure about these things that are now being called archives. Is anything lost by the fact that the word has come to mean so many more things.
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I need to eat a lot; otherwise, I feel faint. I get in the worst moods if I don't eat.
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Dramas make me laugh. The other day, I saw 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' and I was giggling the whole time. I laugh when I'm uncomfortable.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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Badminton is not a popular sport in India.
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Even among those who I would not count as 'friends,' I have met many people online who have simply commented on my work or are interested by what I do.
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I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God. You know, going to the mosque, the ritual and the tradition, it's just not in me to do. So I don't do it.
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Something interesting has happened over the last 10 years in the Premier League. Players who once would have been discarded as expensive and too old have become important parts of title-winning squads.
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I was always the type of person that whenever I started something I finished it. And, I was always held accountable for my actions.
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Let's say you need a perfectly obedient servant who never gets tired, never needs to be paid, and is virtually indestructible. If you're in a galaxy a long time ago and far, far away, you'll just fly off to the local droid auction and pick up one of those shiny gold models with lovely manners.
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Life is about love and experience and learning and evolving and I am richer and thankful for all of the experiences in my life.
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It was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers.
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I am exhausted by trying to get along with the Lord.
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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why we're here - to evolve as human beings.
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Party politics divides friendships sometimes.
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The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.
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As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.
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The earthly power sucks shadowed milk from sleepy tears undone, from nippled skin as smooth as silk the bugles blown as one.
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The Queen of England gave me the honor of the Order of the British Empire for working with children.
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One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.
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Believe that none of the effort you put into coming closer to God is ever wasted - even if in the end you don't achieve what you are striving for.
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Acting is a specific discipline. Just because you can sing doesn't mean you have the sensitivities of being an actor.
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The word "archive" seems so reassuring, but I'm not sure about these things that are now being called archives. Is anything lost by the fact that the word has come to mean so many more things.
