Edward Abbey Quotes
All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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I'm going to find solutions wherever I can. I think it's all a priority. You can't just say, 'OK, I'm going to work on this but not that.' You have to work on all of it.
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I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.
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Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
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I love working with women.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.
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Some people don't understand that I - as an artist and a person - I want to make my own decisions and create the music that I personally like.
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We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.
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You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.
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A lot of the time, when I'm choreographing, I'm not thinking about what movement look best next to the next movement - I'm actually thinking about what song and what sound sounds right next to the next thing. So kind of choreographing as if I'm always making a mix tape, so to speak.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which were under-furnished and always cold.
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I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.
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All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.
