Devendra Banhart (Devendra Obi Banhart) Quotes
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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Mediaeval mythology, rich and gorgeous, is a compound like Corinthian brass, into which many pure ores have been fused, or it is a full turbid river drawn from numerous feeders, which had their sources in remote climes.
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South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.
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For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.
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I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.
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From my own kind I only learnHow foolish comfort is
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Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
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Consider the most famous pure dystopian tale of modern times, 1984, by George Orwell (1903-1950), published in 1948 (the same year in which Walden Two was published). I consider it an abominably poor book. It made a big hit (in my opinion) only because it rode the tidal wave of cold war sentiment in the United States.
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Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.
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I look at all my projects as a stair step to the next. My goal is to always get better and better.
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It only takes one profound experience to change somebody's life.
