Andrew O'Hagan Quotes
When I was growing up, there was a feeling in one's living room as much as in one's local gallery that a little elitism was good for the soul.
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Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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Caffeine is a good thing.
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I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.
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I practice on the roads of Gaza as we don't have good stadiums and tracks so I gave my best.
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To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
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It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.
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I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
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When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
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Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.
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I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
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I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
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Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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I got quite good results from protein plates.
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I was broken in body, soul and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!
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People come up to me all the time in New York. Not for autographs, but to talk about movies, often in a very scientific way.
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I grew up in the South, and I think there are lots of people who have distorted views of the South.
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For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
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It has to have a payroll tax that's dedicated to Social Security. The Social Security tax has been very successful over the years in raising almost all of our elderly citizens out of poverty.
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When I was growing up, there was a feeling in one's living room as much as in one's local gallery that a little elitism was good for the soul.
