Anton Chekhov Quotes
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.
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The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
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You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.
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Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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I think music docs could turn off some people.
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.
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The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
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I certainly wasn't a fan of Thatcher's politics. People liked to label us as children of Thatcher. What nonsense. The real children of Thatcher came in the 1990s, and had no interest in politics. The Oasis, Britpop scene.
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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
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My Plan A was to be a psychologist. I thought I would be a receptionist. I'm always middle of the road and very normal. I've always wanted a normal life, and this is what I got.
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I think I didn't know whether I wanted to keep acting deep into my career. I kept trying to see if I would be able to do it well enough to make that part of my destiny or part of what I was supposed to do.
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Music helps me immeasurably in the writing process.
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I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.
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I want to work with great directors and tell great stories - storytelling is the one great love of my life, and it means so much, and we have the ability to change the world by telling stories, and I want to keep doing that.
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There have definitely been more than a few moments in my life where I'm wondering where the next paycheck will come from and how I'm gonna pay rent.
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There are a lot of elements when you're writing, or when I'm writing, that are sitting in the back of your mind. I try to let them stay there, because they find their way in more naturally that way.
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I was once sitting on a tube, and someone was playing my song so loudly through their ear phones next to me. I just stayed silent and chuckled to myself.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
