George Parsons Lathrop Quotes
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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I really like sort of disappearing.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.
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Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
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Whether you're a Twitter follower, a YouTube subscriber or a Facebook friend, natural social instinct is to collect people and to not kind of see them later. But unfortunately, with social media, you collect them and they're in your life, whether you really want them or not.
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There is an element of mystique to radio, and I often listen to cricket commentary on radio, especially when one is stuck in a traffic jam.
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I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.
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I believe in working with songs that have personal value for me.
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I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.
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Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need to be solid, and then excavate the sand, and we have our architecture. We can either excavate it by hand, or we can have the wind excavate it for us.
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Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.
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Mother or Murderer, you havegiven or taken life - Now all is one!
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On Valentine's day, I'm doing a show with an orchestra. We're doing a show with all standards for the Children's Hospital in Charleston.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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When I die? Fuck it, I wanna go to hell, 'cause I'm a piece of shit. It ain't hard to fuckin' tell.
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Wealth is the progressive realization of worthy goals, the ability to love and have compassion, meaningful and caring relationships.
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A nobleness to try for, A name to live and die for.
