Kevin Ayers Quotes
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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Well, I'm certainly glad that I was nominated for an Oscar. There is certainly a respect that comes with that nod. Also, a compliment that comes with it, too. Not that I really know what I'm doing. In a lot of ways I feel like some child on set, or like a kid that snuck in the back door.
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I seldom was ever off my seat on the bench during the game.
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No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
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If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.
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If I am not in love, nothing is meaningful to me. I have no energy.
