Arthur Symons Quotes
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.
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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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I grew up in Arizona, but I moved to L.A. when I was 18 to model. I was doing work for American Apparel and then got cast in the Yeezus tour. Vanessa Beecroft did the creative direction, and they hired three American Apparel models and nine dancers - it wasn't a lot of dancing; we were mostly just walking.
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A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, she may have a diminished earning capacity because of the fact that she will bear children. Of course, this is case by case. I had two kids, and it didn't really slow me down at all.
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I just can't read music.
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With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and years for the next book.
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Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.
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I'm pretty stubborn.
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I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want.
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There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes my mate Miss Ruby Wax great hilarity, I was offered a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Even I knew that was a bad idea! They'll throw anything at you at certain times. So, you know, to thine own self be true.
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There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it.
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Beyonce is one of my inspirations. Her attitude, her style, her voice... she's perfect.
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Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang.
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Calms appear, when storms are past,Love will have its hour at last.
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I have laid sorrow to sleep;Love sleeps.She who oft made me weepNow weeps.
