David Toop Quotes
Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time...turning the rational musical order into an ocean of sensation.
Quotes to Explore
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Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
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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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I was a judo athlete, while taking modeling as my side job, before I eventually quit my professional sports career over a knee injury.
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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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It's so cool though when I see thirty-year-old men that are coming in to watch my shows. It's like, 'You really like my music? Like a teenage girl, you relate to it?' It just proves how much people are alike.
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With every day that passes, David Blunkett becomes more insensitive in his language and more intemperate in his actions.
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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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I can remember my sister and me volunteering for Nixon. My parents liked him. I liked my parents. So I figured he was good.
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There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.
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Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who talks to his characters or harbours any illusions about the creative process. But at the same time, I think it's juvenile and arrogant when literary writers compulsively remind their readers that the characters aren't real. People know that already. The challenge is to make an intelligent reader suspend disbelief, to seduce them into the reality of a narrative.
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Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.
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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.
