David Toop Quotes
Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time...turning the rational musical order into an ocean of sensation.
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A lasting two-state solution requires two credible partners, and not just one side - Israel - taking superficial steps simply to placate world opinion.
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This man who was my father's age hit me hard on my head when I was 17. I started bleeding. I took out my sandal and hit his head hard, and he started to bleed, too.
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I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
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Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.
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I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
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Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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I grew up in the Seattle suburbs - the suburbs of suburbs. Where I'm from, it's super quiet, just woods and nothing.
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You can write a radical Norwegian or a conservative Norwegian. And when I changed to a conservative Norwegian, I gained this distance or objectivity in the language. The gap released something in me, and in the writing, which made it possible for the protagonist to think thoughts I had never myself thought.
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I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm doing, and it seems to work better when I am enjoying it.
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It is sometimes difficult to avoid the impression that there is a sort of foreknowledge of the coming series of events.
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The fact that people put on 'Honey, I'm Good' to get their day started - that's really sweet.
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There's no such thing as a favorite investment. But I think I tend to invest in Asia in promising countries, in equities, in real estate, and I own precious metals, obviously.
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You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there.
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Art is such a personal experience, I really try to make my own thing.
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Mark my words, Michael Van Gerwen will knock Phil Taylor off his perch one day and be the best darts player on the planet.
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As long as the attitude is to only show the sheet metal, then automobile advertising will continue to be wretched.
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My heart is really in building coalitions.
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Sing of the nature of women, and then the song shall be surely full of variety; old crotchets and most sweet closes. It shall be humorous, grave, fantastic, amorous, melancholy, sprightly, one in all, and all in one.
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Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.
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Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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We are living in a cultural dark age of musical pollution. You put the radio on, and five minutes later you need an aspirin.
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Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time...turning the rational musical order into an ocean of sensation.
