Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes
What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.
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When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.
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So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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I did a voice for Odo, but people don't recognize you by your voice.
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My dream role is Richard Pryor, no question about that. I'm a big Richard Pryor fan. I've always been intrigued about the darkness behind his comedy; that would always be a dream role for me.
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That's a huge part of being a human being: looking for love and finding a partner in this world. When you constantly play characters who don't have that life, it feels incomplete and not totally human.
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What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
