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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Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
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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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One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense. Repentance and sorrow can only be displaced by something better, which is as free and original as if they had not been.
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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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Perceptions really do define what our realities are. What we're hoping to do with 'Atlanta' is to really shatter that. To shatter it completely wide open. To go from the furthest lane of absurdity to the furthest lane of reality and make them blend.
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I am always someone who follows the research more than my self-interest. It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men. I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.
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Love is a sensation caused by temptation when a guy sticks his location into a girl's destination to increase the population for the next generation. Do you understand my explanation or do you need a demonstration?
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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.
