Meg White Quotes
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There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.
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I enjoy being in Toronto - there's lots of energy, lots of neat different neighbourhoods - but Vancouver is still home and always will be. I miss going for walks on the ocean with beautiful mountains.
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Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.
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A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
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Like a lot of small press founders I was looking for a way into publishing - as well as a way out of academia. Without moving to London, I couldn't see a way of working for a publishing house whose work I liked. Believe it or not, the simplest way for me to get into publishing was to start my own press.
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I was not a good father in my first marriage. Although there are ways of deserting the family without leaving physically, I was deserted in my head. I was always out, always in the saloons, always drinking, always messing about.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the mountains Can the sailor understand The divine intoxication Of the first league out from land?
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I will stand up for families against powerful interests, against corporations.
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When dealing with Canadians, it is advantageous to seem to be negotiating from a position of weakness, for when faced with an abject opponent, they become concession-happy and will accede to almost anything.
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Theoretical concepts of music and extended techniques are more like seasoning to me; they're not the meal. I like outside music that still has a sense of forward motion and an emotive quality to it.
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The art of beautiful motion is far and away the oldest. Before man learned how to use any instruments at all, he moved the most perfect instrument of all, his body. He did this with such abandon that the cultural history of prehistoric and ancient man is, for the most part, nothing but the history of the dance.
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You really see life around the principals to be as important as the main, principal actors. That's what cinéma vérité taught me - that it's not a question of having a main character, a great actor, and the rest is unimportant. Every detail, every face in the crowd is important.
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Festivals are weird, you never know what to expect so it's a bit more nerve wracking then playing your own show.
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He who has no light in his heart, what will he gain from the festival of lamps.
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I don't like flying. I'm a bit scared of it and don't enjoy the whole experience.
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As we're starting our investigation, instead of trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together, we found out how bad things really were down there as far as lack of communication between agencies and lack of interest by the people who were running these agencies. Basically, all they want to do is sweep it under the doormat.
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It's hard to get that real good feeling about festivals sometimes.
