Arthur Machen Quotes
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
Quotes to Explore
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Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
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From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it goes back to the sacred origins of literature - the holy book. There's nothing holy about it for me, but it should be serious, and it should be totally transparent.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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I don't know how many kids I am going to have, but definitely I am one of those women who wants to have family and kids.
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I don't feel that electronic music has to stand on the back of urban artists or anyone else to be recognized. It's great music.
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I think I'm expected to behave in a certain manner.
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I am most familiar with the Gujarati language.
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I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.
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Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.
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I'm in awful shape. I'm trying to get in better shape. My girlfriend, she's in good shape. She gives me health tips sometimes, like, 'Hannibal, you're going to die.' Stuff like that.
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I am a child of the '70s, so I love classic rock - Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, and I also love Coldplay.
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I had the humble beginnings. I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.
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God bless each and everyone of you.
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The sculptor must learn to reproduce the surface, which means all that vibrates on the surface: spirit, soul, love, passion - life. ... Sculpture is thus the art of hollows and mounds, not of smoothness, or even polished planes.
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I'm obsessed with Starbucks seasonal flavors. I love their seasonal cups. I love their pumpkin-flavored coffee. I love that. I absolutely love, love, love Starbucks seasonal everything.
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Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit.
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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
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Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme - it's taken very seriously. So I tried to do as much learning as I could about it so I wasn't mean or anything.
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When I was four, we went to Oahu. It was the first time we celebrated Passover away from home.
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I like the action business. I like the action movies. I guess Hollywood wants to see me do action. So I am down. I like it.
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Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.
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It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
