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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I'm not in the business of meddling with people's destinies - and yes, my characters are real people to me. They have histories and thoughts and yearnings and hurts and misgivings and pleasures that don't belong to me.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I hope that in 50 years I can look back and say I made my most fervent efforts to provide visibility for the unseen.
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I don’t believe in God and all that. But I am Jewish, and very proud to be so, very proud of the culture.
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I never thought radio would fizzle out.
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What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
