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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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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I think Valentine's Day is one of those holidays like New Year's where people develop such high expectations that even if it's a decent day, it doesn't live up, and it's disappointing.
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When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.
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I have no control whatsoever on how people perceive me from the Right or the Left. All I have control over is who I say I am.
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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.
