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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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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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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There is one Physician, of flesh and of spirit, originate and unoriginate, God in man, true Life in death, son of Mary and son of God, first passible and then impassible: Jesus Christ our Lord.
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L.A. hasn't changed me that much - I've not forgotten where I'm from, you know. And I need to find a haggis, but no-one seems to sell them over here.
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There is something exciting when you see people who are very formal talking with each other, and there is a sense that they have chosen to be that way. There is something masked that is more interesting to me than just people who are intent on displaying their uniqueness or whatever.
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Other people's lives are affected by how you are treating yourself and the way in which you are performing.
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There is a great demand everywhere in the world for individual mobility. People like the fact they are not on somebody else's schedule. They can come and go as they please.
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What are we out at the park for, except to win?
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What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
