Les Claypool Quotes
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I don't look at emails, Internet or newspapers before 1 P.M. I wake at 7 A.M., eat fruit, drink tea or coffee, and read what I've achieved, or not achieved, the previous day. Then I take a shower and work on my next sentence until 1 P.M. After I've done emails and so on, I write again from 3 P.M. until 8 P.M.; then I socialise.
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Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
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The rise of the Internet and the camera phone have started to change what stories are accessible.
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I wanted to have a body of work behind me before I wrote about racism.
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I think the real problem is that nobody buys albums anymore, so you don't get the depth of the artists that are out today. What you get is whatever they felt is politically correct to get on there and actually make some impact. I think that's where you're losing your depth. You're only getting the very top of everything. It really bothers me.
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Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.
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I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
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That's one of the things I resent the most violently. To have to take your own life and give it away to the public, in pieces.
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When I came to America, I told my dad I wanted to be an actress.
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I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting.
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I also thank Bill McKibben and his 350.org colleagues for the most important work in the world, and the most unending.
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A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.
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Y si cuanto encuentras es en cuanto buscas, siempre, en vano encuentras, en vano buscas.
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Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
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I think the stigma surrounding mental illness and also the stigma surrounding self-esteem issues or insecurities or just even feeling different is something that doesn't really get enough attention. Everybody struggles with feeling alone or that they are going through something they don't quite understand.
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Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.
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I tried out for American Idol, I got a record deal, and now it's like my best days are ahead of me.
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Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.
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In the early '90s, I was disillusioned after the blasts and riots in Mumbai. I was in college and started thinking that religion was the root cause of all these evils. While my father told me not to blame religion because of a few bad people, I wasn't convinced. The faith was restored after I started writing my first book.
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I have come from a background where I haven't had lots of money to put me on the map. I've had to work very hard for what I've got.
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Communications is the biggest driver of frequency of use of anything. Think about how many times a day you check your email on your phone or text someone or message someone.
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The way I look at - speaking as a woman - I understand what it means to be a daughter, and to be a wife, and to be a mother, and also to be a career woman. The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.
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New Year's was insane! It was the best show I've ever played for New Year's.
