Kingsley Amis Quotes
'You're still the same girl. What people do doesn't change their nature.'She shook her head.… 'What they do is their nature,' she said.
Kingsley Amis
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
Adam Mansbach
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
Sally Pearson
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People always accused me of not smiling like my rival Olga Korbut, but that was just my personality. When you're balancing on a nine-inch beam, you have to concentrate. But if you look back at the footage, I was always smiling and waving at the crowd after my performances.
Nadia Comaneci
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
Laura Mvula
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I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.
D. A. Pennebaker
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All of us grow.
Foster Friess
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It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.
Jackson Pollock
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Everyone at school knew I wanted to be a singer. I'd always be banging on the piano playing my new song. The teacher would gather us round, and the whole class would listen.
Dolores O'Riordan
The Cranberries
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What singing means to me, I never did consider myself a singer, I just let people watch me feel music and how it comes through me. I've worked on it and practiced a lot. I mean, music, I dance to it, and singing is just one way of getting it out of me.
Erykah Badu
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One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.
Ira Glass
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I don't think a lot of people have been entrepreneurial about venture capital.
Josh Kopelman
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'You're still the same girl. What people do doesn't change their nature.'She shook her head.… 'What they do is their nature,' she said.
Kingsley Amis
