Ariel Levy Quotes
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.
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I basically use Facebook and Twitter and MySpace to communicate with the fans. I don't think it's necessarily about advancing my career, but I do want to be able to connect with my fans. They are so important to me, and a lot of them have stuck with me since the very beginning, and that means so much to me.
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I think music sharing of any kind is great.
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I'm a real romantic.
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
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My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That's how I play.
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The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
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People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.
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Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the 'best' American higher criticism.
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Ultimately, my belief is that the best marketing is creating a product that people are excited to talk about. Period.
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We can think so much about life and take ourselves so seriously; I mean, I like to tell people, 'Don't take life too seriously' because you'll cloud the experience. That's what the meaning of life is to me - being able to enjoy the moment.
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Lost are many great commissions by such neglect.
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All of the good stuff is going to be done in the future. The stuff we are doing now is crummy compared with what will finally mature.
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Shirley Valentine is a beautiful character and so well written. What Shirley speaks and thinks is so logical.
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It is the duty of man to raise up man.
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People are often disappointed when they meet me because I'm not this giant, flamboyant - you know, I don't wear sequined jackets.
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In a perfect world, I would never do any interviews, and probably there would be one photo out there of me, and that would be it.
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A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.
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I think I would fan over Beyonce or Adele. Those are my two girl idols, definitely.
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I feel like I turn into my grandma when I'm pecking away at Twitter. And I don't care.
