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.Andrew O'Hagan
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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.
Gabriel Byrne -
'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.
Aaron Neville -
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
Camille Paglia -
Caffeine is a good thing.
Manoj Bhargava -
I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.
Gary Cole -
I practice on the roads of Gaza as we don't have good stadiums and tracks so I gave my best.
Nader al-Masri
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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.
Madhuri Dixit -
The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
Samuel Johnson -
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.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
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.
Nadia Comaneci -
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.
Madeleine Peyroux -
I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
Haley Reinhart
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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.
Washed Out -
Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
Adam McKay -
I got quite good results from protein plates.
Gabriel Lippmann -
What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.
Ian Mcewan -
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Dag Hammarskjold -
The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have; I want my own path, my own sound, my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom, they want good business.
Joe Nichols
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I trade musical favours like cattle. I can't remember the last time I did a remix for actual money. For me, I try and get a good swap.
Calvin Harris -
When I was a young man in the 1970s, tech firms were scattered across the developed world. Since then, America has come to dominate tech almost totally.
Kenneth Fisher -
To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
Kofi Annan -
We talk to our partners in Silicon Valley every week, so we have a real sense of what goes on.
Peter Barris -
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.
Andrew O'Hagan