Ariel Pink Quotes
We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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I would love to do some theater.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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I started out doing musicals.
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So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
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Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.
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People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
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The Cardiff Half Marathon has already proved itself to be one of the biggest and best road races in the U.K., and when the best athletes in the world run on the same course, the times should be spectacular. But the real beauty of this event is that ordinary runners get the chance to line up on the same start line as the best athletes in the world.
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I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different, and I can't do what they do, but reading them gives me hope that I'll learn something from them.
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I think music is an intuitive force. It's this beautiful wave that connects all of us and inspires us, and I think music has the ability - when you listen to a song, you're not immediately thinking about the lyrics or what's going on in the mind of the writer, you're feeling the song.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
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We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive.
