Marc Bolan Quotes
There is so little time for us all; I need to be able to say what I want quickly and to as many people as possible.
Quotes to Explore
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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A lot of people think that to make it as a model you just need to be pretty and slim, but they're wrong. There's a lot of hard work involved. You have to be very focused, know what kind of work you're aiming for.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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It seems so long ago that I played the part of the Doctor.
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One thing that I think never goes out of style is just purity. Niceness and purity. And the Muppets have never lost that. Kermit especially is just wide-eyed wonder, unblinking. And he can't blink. Which I think probably helps.
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Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.
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I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.
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There is so little time for us all; I need to be able to say what I want quickly and to as many people as possible.
