Larry Wall Quotes
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Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
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Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.
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It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
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I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the '80s really changed when the '90s hit. For me to chase that dream or career of music, I started a family, started on 'Melrose Place,' so it was something I didn't have the time or energy.
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.
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Before 9/11, our defense policy was based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights; we will never be an aggressor.
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I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.
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Cape Town, South Africa, was pretty incredible. That's probably the coolest place I have ever been, and the kiteboarding is insane there. It's so windy, so you can get massive air.
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The only album that I listen to upon recording a new one is my 'Cry' album, because sonically, I think it's my best album to date. But other than that, I've never listened to my records, ever.
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Oprah has definitely caught my eye. My mom and I used to watch her shows. We just love her.
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It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!
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After high school, I went to VCU and got a B.F.A. in theater. I got to do a bunch of stuff professionally throughout college. I actually got my SAG card in college.
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I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.
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You as stupid as they come. Of course, I say this with your best interests at heart. Most people are stupid. I don't hold it against them.
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'It is what you believe that translates in the life you live.'
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The word 'souvenir' has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless; but even today, ninety per cent of the items covered by the word are forgettable objects in which cigarettes can be left to go stale.
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It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum of everything is of mental character. But no one can deny that mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience, and all else is remote inference - inference either intuitive or deliberate.
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Back before 'Brick,' I wrote a short film that I never ended up shooting: hit men in the present who work for a mob in the future who send their victims back in time. A guy is sent his future self, he lets him run, and the whole short was them chasing each other across the city. That sat in a drawer for 10 years until after I made 'Brothers Bloom.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
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Perhaps God gave one sisters to teach one to love the inexplicable.
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Beauty? What's that?
