Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes
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Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.
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A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.
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I over-scrutinize anyone new entering my life.
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I think because Sport Lux has come in and leisure wear is a new thing, girls can sneak in hoodies and leggings and so on where they wouldn't normally - it has been proper legitimate fashion.
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I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.
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In 2014, we have some new activities and new order wins in the non-automotive space.
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He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.
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What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
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Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.
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The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.
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Every other year, I was the new boy. I found that the only way to survive was to embrace it, make a little fortress on the outside and to pretend to blend in but not to invest too much because you'll be somewhere else next year.
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.
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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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I just write mechanical things.
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As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.
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They call people who love London 'Anglophiles' and people who love France 'Francophiles.' I'd be the New York version of that.
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When I was 12, I happened to see a schoolmate playing percussion, and it looked interesting. I asked for lessons, and it felt right.
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I made a point when I made the Ugly Casanova record to not write a song and then say, 'This is a Modest Mouse song' or 'This is an Ugly Casanova song.' The people who were open to it not being a Modest Mouse record liked it.
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Behold, I make all things new.
