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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I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
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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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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
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Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.
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What I sacrificed as I pursued my dreams was my comfort, not the lives of other people who looked to me to stay afloat. That alone freed me to take more risks, which did pay off in dividends. Having a safety net is an asset that most people do not have.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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I've been lucky - I've been an actor for eight years and I've never been out of work.
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What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
