Labrinth Quotes
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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I do movies that I would like to go and see. I think that's a good barometer of how I choose films. I like going to these movies. Our job is to make sure the audience gets their $16 worth. That's my job.
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I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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Modesty is good. But not when it comes at the cost of honesty.
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.
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I like music a lot.
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The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
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Crossword puzzles, Sudoku... I'm good at all those things. It's not daily, but I'll do stuff on the airplane. I love playing chess. It's my favorite game.
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To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other.
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If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.
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A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.
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Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environmental, without the customary narrative and episodic quality that music normally has. I called this 'ambient music.' But at the same time I was trying to make visual art become more like music, in that it changed the way that music changes.
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Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face.
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I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
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We do not need the empire to give us anything.
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The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.
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You get so close to your own music that you can't see the beauty in it. I had to learn to let go. It's good to be less precious.
