Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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I like to discover new things.
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I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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Homecourt is everything in the NBA.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.
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One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.
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I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
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I am interested in how human beings react to crisis and conflict.
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Harry Hadden-Paton is just a lovely actor and an incredible person.
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I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.
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Snow Flower was my old same for life. I had a greater and deeper love for her than I could ever feel for a person who was my husband.
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The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
